Drift from Diluvium Cantos by Portal to the God Damn Blood Dimension

keeping up appearances
plain sight
esteemed colleagues 
wrote dialog stayed

where’d you come from?
constitutionals 
rhetorical pawns escheweth evil
in the pit of their stomachs

favored homes
wasting fear
standard protections
hardly an embarrassment

let’s test that theory
as soon as they get a little authority
they will immediately begin
to exercise unrighteous dominion

rejoice
reject
strategy sessions
it’s up to you, man

but keep it to yourself
for a small moment
divided exaltation 
just the messenger

this isn’t what we were promised
cut short
I only am escaped alone to tell thee
perpetually falling skies

threads pulled
unraveled
melted
wounded

some marvelous workings
corrupted again
storm’s comin’
batten down the hatches


hopeless rubble
they shaved their head
and fell down upon the ground
and worshipped

anointed
sanctified
torn wide open
obedient tears

naked came I out of the womb
and naked shall I return thither
face down in a hotel bathtub
you can’t bullshit a bullshitter

familiar guests
familiar questions
take a seat
charmed I’m sure

worse with every generation
worse with every generation
without cause
a millstone

around their necks
skin for skin, yea,
all that they hath
will they give for their life

in the depth of the sea
a hissing conference 
past the point of pleasantries
futile negotiations

quick turnaround
sore boils
from the sole of their foot
unto their crown

appointed
broken glass to scrape
broken glass to scrape
and they sat down among the ashes



still at it, huh?
a fine revelation
kicking against the pricks
anxiously awaiting

for naught
in all this did not the servant
sin with their lips
highwire act

word gets around
and they’re on the list
for the dispensation
of the fulness of times

the same old rules
and they rent
every one
their mantle

shook off sleep
thou art not yet as Job
thou art not yet as Job
weak consolation

called
chosen
uninspired
long suffering

and none spake a word unto them

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