Electric Magazine Volume VII (Winter '19) | Page 26

At 3 AM statues would be brought to the cities square

We were forced to watch as the guards destroyed and broke them and we

Took photos and then burnt them.

We were given wipes to wipe away the grease on our hands.

All the while Dogs ate your engorged

Bloated face every 14 seconds with masked men all around.

And the colors created were used to paint

A portrait of pandaimōn.

Little bugs

Penetrated your skin,

And ate your crepuscular heart.

A land filled with dried skin, a land

Filled of dunes, underneath

Stone cities with blocks of prayer stones.

Men made of rats and rats

Made of men, all walked through

The flipped cityscape with papers

On papers and they saw each other alone and

Naked and skin dangling and shining

With nothing to stop it from flailing away

To the sky and we are left alone to bury wood worn thoughts

With dogs and flies and rats and men and hookers fill in onto our eyes.

IV.

Lucifer, stood up,

Clawed hands and

Contorted

Figure, and walked away into

The land of ágno̱stos,

The land of kingdoms

Formed into one. A

Lone white bird

Was left in the mud.

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