gagngsta

the kindred of the lost
you discuss yourselves
slowly into madness


out goes all the reasoned notions
in come
the drinks
and potions


predators creep about in the bushes
outside the school yard
why are you surprised to find yourself in the line up?

watch you from far on the other side of sanity
see the storms
that blew apart your dark life
shredded you down
stripped your humanity
to the bare animal core

left a cruel smile on your face
an ugliness nothing can hide

a settled look of disgust
becomes the mask of your last decades

your insides dry and brittle
emptied somewhere
accidently
along the way
pissed into a stained toilet
in a stream of cheap wine
coughed out in bloody plegm
and spit on the sidewalk








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