Speak Not of the Laudanum Quandary

The vanity of the opportunist
 And narcissism on an imperial scale
 Breeding spite and despotic aches
 Finding form in entitlement
 To steep in bloody euphoria the despicable canvas
 Bleached whiter than death
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 Solitary molecules wander from receptor to receptor
 Come, spiteful opiate!
 Invoking bliss as brittle as rapture
 Like the harlequin balanced
 Between his stilts and the noose
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 The sovereign tongue contorts and molests
 Its dance as meretricious as the poppy
 A foul lecher drooling bile
 On these windows
 On this pristine filth
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 We've made our bed, and lord knows
 We won't be telling the truth in it
 A cobblestone chorus
 With all the tenacity of oxygen
 Bent double on phosphorus
 The tearing of the robe
 As the curtains in the temple
 The stretching of the rope
 As a sordid fundamental
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 I let the flesh persist
 Such that, in transient and passing stupor
 I exist
 Speak not, child
 Speak not
 There's an art to it
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 A prickling of every pore, each follicle an antenna
 Crackling static over cold skin
 Vasoconstriction on every frequently flung out frequency
 Individuals all lined up in sequence
 Elated and unabated, pulse and pulse again!
 Ah!
 To plaster the walls with the bone dust
 And to smear over the concrete
 With bloody viscosity
 All born in the gutter to gutter-borne orphans
 All limbs and no legacy
 All in this together?
 Hah!
 I'll believe it
 I'll let it grow like plaque
 When my head zips up at the back
 Down from the ballpoint comes a great new divide
 Sintering these crystallites
 We're less catalyst and more cattle-eyes
 Two-faced phases falling
 Failing, flailing against the undertow
 In the pretence that they're not just atoms
 In the cycle of reactant flow
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 Just as many are the flaxen locks rudely torn
 From the heads of children
 Many are the pawns thrown without ceremony
 From this mortal board
 The Queen moves unperturbed
 But there's a wanton amoral grip about her throat
 Abhorrent and abundant, resplendent on the velvet
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 The papaver is germinating
 Not for want of soil, nor water