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from spit smoke, black factories. by hey predator!

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up on the transcendent clouds of history
the tired scribes and their brides slept fitfully
dreaming of time's crimes and man's divide
from the myopia of his memories;
their dreams were fraught with the fear
of failing voices in the long-since-forgotten throats
of their brothers, who, in their innocence,
wished eternity upon the lines they wrote
in songs and melodies so vain
that none but the king of the sun
danced to the music they made,
his self-pity displaced.

the petty fears the years evoked
aligned them with their destiny:
to be the kings of all until
the separation of leaf from tree.

their dreams returned them to the day
they watched their library burn down
bringing back that sense of loss so crushing,
that loss of hope so profound,
that when they woke to find the day
they saw in the shadows they cast
an absence they couldn't escape;
death hanging in their wake.

the drifting ashes choked with smoke
implied to them their destiny:
to be the kings of nowhere when
the leaf takes its course from the tree.

leaves from the trees.

as leaves from the trees fell the scribes and their history;
an honest forecast called for the clouds to dissipate,
so they just faded away.

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from spit smoke, black factories., released June 10, 2009

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