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Ravened

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There was a desire that
Wrapped itself in a dozen faces
Each of them excuses, justifications,
Flow-patterns that lead from
The Neutral State
Into corruption – because
Somehow we couldn't look past the masks,
The stage-lighting showed only them,
And with their painted symbols,
We failed to see their similarity,
That in that form-fitting white,
(Moulded whilst fluid)
They were the same.

I will take all of them,
Every single one
Stride forth and claim them –
Wrap them up and grasp them,
Clasping the mechanistic, with an embrace
In a blank, hungry regardlessness…

A remorseless hunger in my throat,
That other me, that has claimed the masks
('Those kids today and their rainbow parties,' splitting
The cold light into replication of urban legend,
Demythologising our cankers, cancers, our cancerous sensibilities,
A predilection for depredation)
Now stalks for all those that might spark
The autonomic, might spark the automatic,
Enough in the heart to make it fun; not enough to make this ravener stop
Being ravenous for them, to
Claim a pair, claim a dozen, claim a score
Of the dear, the close, the friendly, the near.

[There is no impossibility, no
Way to make some force unstoppable
All you have to say is
No
All you have to say is no
Those masks, plaster, will break if we let them go from our fingers].
Ravened
Cross of Jerusalem

Position: Oblivion #18

Spatiotemporal Location: I am not sure when, but definitely in Corpus Christi.
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