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Adrenal

Pitted, hollow olives on a branch of self-seclusion

Are the fruits of my endeavors in the land of fleshy fusion

Wilted limbs and colleagues are the recipe’s occlusion

In the lodgings of the petty for some favors in profusion

Many times a master

would a student leave dumbfounded

With the trappings of inanity

for children disregarded

Fitted with the furnishings of vessels long discarded

In an intellectual famine that the masses make retarded

Spinning

Without aid

Forever!

Broken

From linear

Propulsion

Drooling

The spit of

The rabid

Follow

The rabbit

Inside

Nevermind the muttering

Look inside

Absolve this fool,

Rosebud?

Now,

Knowing of you

And the outside

How am I supposed to live a life

Clad in the lies

Of the mundane

Spoon-fed on the lap of wolves

Fighting off the urge

To rebel

Repeating that I’m not insane

I know

Somewhere beyond

The banal stain

A higher, nobler purpose lies

Patterns

Unfolding

Together

Lubing

The mental

Protrusion

Irking

The quay of

Light

Dropping

Out of

Sight

Pitted, hollow olives on a branch of self-seclusion

Are the fruits of my endeavors in the land of fleshy fusion

Wilted limbs and colleagues are the recipe’s occlusion

In the lodgings of the petty for some favors in profusion

Many times a master

would a student leave dumbfounded

With the trappings of inanity

for children disregarded

Fitted with the furnishings of vessels long discarded

In an intellectual famine that the masses make retarded

Pay no mind the yattering

Who’s outside

Hand me the tool

Strobe light?

Now,

Knowing of you

And the outside

How am I supposed to live a life

Clad in the lies

Of the mundane

Spoon-fed on the lap of wolves

Fighting off the urge

To rebel

Repeating that I’m not insane

I know

Somewhere beyond

The banal stain

A higher, nobler purpose lies

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