DAMNZYORE

Society. Economics. Designed to fail. Designed to be unreliable. Designed to expire. Taught prejudice. Taught ignorance. Propaganda. Manipulation. Religion. Politics. Conservative. Liberal. Jealousy. Hatred. Control. Fate. Free-will. Speciesism. Racism. Worker = Toiler = Serf. Resignation = Death. Exhaustion. Stimulation. Legal stimulation. Illegal. Third-world country. First-world deficit. Lingua franca. Foreign Tongue. Materialism. Humanitarianism. Artificial. Natural. Synthetic. Surreal. Illusion. Self. Home. Country. World. Planet. Life. Dreams. Aspirations. Waste. Insubstantial + Insig

spend all day on the road don't want to go home got no place of my own got a free spirit but don't got no soul got some wings but they been clipped pluck out my feathers with an overgrown beak

Parched, cracked lips Sun-dried face Copper-colored skin A roll of old tobacco Withering black beard Rough, calloused hands Dirty finger nails You're as easy to read as the lines on your palm

beneath the towering steeples beyond despondent bricks and stalls weep quietly stone statues on sacred walls

the orphan and the phantom the orphan agnes! onyx locks spun in   thick braids, around her neck shoes      gilded with rare stones in the basking light, feet upon the earth   arched, balanced upon the toes     rolls into her pose slender arms bow, graze—toss the wild curls   the chest extends—drops it down     audience applaud white sister goat bleats, she rises swiftly   on handsome hind legs she stands     she declares the time la esmeralda! whose skin was kissed by   her only cons

scale the wall, dom claude beneath the dangling priest was the pyre he broke open his knees to evade the fire said blaze was created thus by the molten lead which-so poured down from the cathedral over head he lifted his cold eyes and saw his deformed son this man above him would see that he was undone from under the devil's egg, guised as a swollen brow an object, quasimodo's rueful eye, would watch how the gypsy's body convulsed as it hung from the noose the archdeacon alchemist's grip was becoming loose unlike sixteen year old brother, he was not by the church impaled instead he met the earth once more as his final breath was e