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Crave

from Carthage Must Die by Carthage

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View this as you would
An unruly child
Throwing his toys out
As he demands acknowledgement

ATTENTION! I’m a virus
But common colds don’t
Threaten anyone these days.
So there you go. Here’s Oscar-winning penicillin.

Tunnel vision rips apart the stupor
I can’t remember if I am a liar
I must be stopped-stripped-nailed back to a circle that
I analyse & draw conclusions from

A moment to describe some weakness:
A child feeds ducks & runs in the sun
21 years later a greasy confessional
New sin. New tones. Quick smiles.

View me as you would
a fat cunt
whinging about their sweating folds,
crying on every bite,

Begging to be big enough
to be a Jeremy Kyle martyr.
I’m a failure as a human
but fuck me anyway babydoll

Another birthday, drink to the dark closing in
I’m praying someone will smash my fucking face in
I must be stopped, stripped back to a circle so
Decadent, luxurious, I observe myself

Half-speed, chewed, gnawed, torn, burnt-out, rotten
I’d like to stop hating but at least anger’s active
And when I was 16, 28 was senile
There’s no end, you- don’t recover, you- fail

Ah fuck this.

Down to a dot with the darkness closing in
I’m at a total fucking loss, but fuck me anyway
I must be stopped, dragged back to a cradle that
I despise & tear my future from

“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness; starving, hysterical, naked, dragging themselves…”

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from Carthage Must Die, released April 11, 2014

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view this as you would an unruly child throwing his
toys/arms/foot-stamp/demands acknowledgement -
ATTENTION! i'm a virus but common colds don't threaten
anyone these days

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