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Have you ever felt joy welling up and threatening
     Exploding inside your soul like a thousand and one stars of happiness?
And all around you, a thousand hearts sing this merriment, and sentiment
     brought on by the flush of a thousand and one candlelights
          no more tears, Peace.
          Lights flash illumine bright against darkness

A thousand and one songs relaying through the halls
     decked forth, made merry. A thousand and one souls
          A thousand, and one more
A singing soul, my thundering heart
A dancing soul, flickering pinpoint dancing against the darkness

Here I am. Take my hands for I am Joy.
Make merry, for I am the song that makes your heart sing.
A thousand and one stars, all shine tonight
A glorious moment, shining bright

A glorious song forever ringing this endless night.

Joy to the World.

As Christian to Romans
(how Nero fed me to the lions)

She thrusts her fists against the posts
     and still insists she sees a ghost
but once was one now never be
     a fissured half of memory

Light... stealing past the hallowed roof
     with which upon us,
     a whiter tent
And you... an echo in his bitter cup, an aftertaste of memory
     as paste you stick to the roof his mouth
     at once a friend and enemy

"But why," you ask, "but why so captive?"
     "Why such a long fall from highest grace?"
"When such tragic scenes now enacted,
      a second ushering the end of days"

Weep daughter. Weep as one who has never been counted.

"Oh Nero, my hero, my tragic fall. You care not about me at all."
"For I am a willow, a weeping tree. A sapling lost in mighty forestry"

For what once was one now never be
     a fissured half of memory.

But you have been counted, blest twice with radiant grace
     with happiness and beautiful face
For as blind man, he will never see
     the weeping of your willow tree

And he will thrust his fists against the posts
     when all he sees is a long dead ghost

An image of pseudo-reality
     A masquerade of nobility
     Inside the void, a saving grace
     And now a farce of beautiful face

No Nero never cared about you at all
     Pushed you off the ledge for a crazy fall.
The day ends and you slowly yearn
      Towards the season, unending burn.

(dedicated to Julian. I hope you learn.)

Can't Breathe

This is too much.
It's too noisy, it's too tense, it's ~~too crowded~~,
in my room, in my head, in my house

shut up shut up shut up shut up!!!!!
I can't hear myself think

There are not enough |walls between us|
there's not enough. oxygen to breathe
there's not enough time for myself

there's no space for my ego!!!!

Stay away from me!!!!!
I just want to be alone!!!!

Eat Cake and Die

Twenty thousand reasons why things go horribly wrong
but you don't listen, cannot nor never will
as long as there are the alibis, the hundred thousand scapegoats
all ignorantly bleating your name
Climb back up, fall down again
All hail Julius Caesar!!!

Julius Caesar? Blah, Nero's your name
Blindest blind fool I ever did see
A pox on your face and a turd on your knee

"Your angels speak with jilted tongue"
"Your stories ring of perjury"

Slide fool, get out of the way
The truck's gonna hit you where it hurts most
your pride, pride, pride
eats you up inside
once a failure
forever a scum

Twenty thousand reasons why things go horribly wrong
For you my friend, there's twenty thousand more.

Go Ahead

go ahead, breathe.

we can pretend the wolves aren't out hunting tonight
damn skin breaks too easily,
rough shod teeth.
that's not canal water cleansing your skin
I believe that stenches of Chanel No. 5

go ahead, believe that you're safe.
you're immortal.
you're out of the woods.

you're dead.

go ahead.
run.