this pretensious serpentining is

swallowing us up as echoing mules

for the hopeless potionings of fools

cadaver’n make-believe’n abracadabra’ers

!just here self-zombify’n’ed on into be’n

so mighty mo’n’mo scared!

most all’us’all just still them themmms . . .      

here scratching there now on cave walls

 mesmerize’n in sanctify’n dehumanising

 manifest gestation’n testation’n destination’ns

!here self-zombify’n’ed on into just be’n

so mighty mo’n’mo so damn scared!

so many many fawn’n herds of us themmms

bleetingly notarize’n assorting barracoonings

!just here self-zombify’n’ed on into be’n

so mighty mo’n’mo so damn scared!

. . . themmm songing legions of shadows

 piss’n in the corners of highrise’n stalls

!just here self-zombify’n’ed on into be’n

so mighty mo’n’mo so damn scared!

. . . themmm trailer parking tin can stalls

perpetrating on in retardationing ya’lls

!just here self-zombify’n’ed on into be’n

so mighty mo’n’mo so damn scared!

. . . themmm gentrifying urban spralls

on into onanisize’n suburban’ana stalls

!just here self-zombify’n’ed on into be’n

so mighty mo’n’mo so damn scared!

. . . themmm legislate’n fools on stools snort’n 

doom for us all in stalls of marbling walls

!just here self-zombify’n’ed on into be’n

so mighty mo’n’mo so damn scared!

. . . just well trained fools still here

breaking mirrors and branding ourselves

with all themmm same talismanic tattoos

on the way to just being the nobodyings here too

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