Neuron Gutter, Neutron Star

[Lucifer:]

See how, I to I, eye will meet my selves,

Heir to their chinese box under seal.

Once the toy's code is cracked,

The horn of lips unsealed births open season.

Wiretap the tight rei(g)n on which

Every eye does see X

Thru channel krosstalk

And teknikolour ghosting

"your hijack is your salvage" (signed the Pirate)

[You:]

But the urban heart gallops

Pumping through presage-riddled alleyz

And the traffic-jam

At the gastro-crossroadz

With panting pistons of sludgy...

F - e - a - r.

What if, between each coffin bone

You were free to flee

The chafe of post-fugal safety,

As petalz by lethean

Lanez can traffick

No quick fix against the Fickle Figment?

[Lucifer:]

The warren's flaring nares would

Draw in your acrid dew - only to puff

Out the sulphurous

Smoke on your nape,

Shepherd you into your blind bolt-hole.

In/out - again - in/out - again - in/out - again - in/out...

[Red War. Victims:]

Projectiles of diversions, safelight alarms,

Jitter everywhere; as

The bullet's image is imprinted in the eye;

The cartridge fuels up on a database

Of souls and ignorance

Making room with a view.

[White Pestilence. Eyewitness:]

But for wired life, the nucleus is empty,

In(ocul)ated against parousia

Our pilgrim rattletraps trailing our fears

Corrupted cargo? Any pathogen hitchhiker

To deadhead the (g)hostcars?

[3x]

The trojan horse stuttered... not so

The wildfire of chasseurs echoing from its womb.

[Black Famine. The Equestrian:]

Like the eagle @ the liver,

This scrawny scout, this dark satanic mill,

Walks with never-healing hunger.

Scavenging the century's corpse

For your tablets against me,

You, marasmic and meagre, become its daily bread;

Not the voiceless bodies of hollow men

But their disembodied voices.

[Lucifer:]

Voices of ether withal - serrated on the edge

Around the icy bower in Babylon's

Concrete covert of knowledge,

Where a paper plane of death statistics

Touches down in the dust bin;

The crew of fickle figments are go!

CNS News Listen! Silence!

"News anchor stands in, as former chair's sidelined

On wrong side of today's pranged bridge."

[Pro-guard:] Our tape binds the safeguard of our liberty

[Anti-guard:]

They sex up the corpus

And through loopholes shoots subconscious sham

[Pro-g:] you pander to panic; why mask our seeing-eye dog?

[Anti-g:] if you say eye for an eye, why must it shrug off scrutiny?

"Pre-polls show pro-guard hit home at play-off talks."

"Vertigo beaten at ballot-box."

[Delegate:]

A patch in a changing world,

The star chamber's been installed.

I am Legion, organeyesensation

My stars will watch you flocks

My scourge will strike with furious anger

I am Legion, the view from your room.

[Lucifer:]

...punchdrunk in the gutter you see

The puffing chimney on the scarlet lab

In after-pangs, the labial scars

On the door, the brass placard:

"Here the B-st from the Sea

Sired the B-st from the Earth,"

Voice-over devouring lung (inside out)

Here also the B-st from the Sea

Begot the bastard son of dawn,

Undevoured in the stern chase

Of red dragon chasing mother chasing

Her elusive bait of twelve stars,

One-third unhinged, shooting stardust

Leaving the world, punchdrunk in the gutter,

A neutron star.

[You:]

We've become

T-cells tearing at the hand that feeds us.

Kamikaze anarchitects drawing the bottom skyline.

The Pirate's mutineers shaking the tower's wide foundations

To feed the bloating crypts of babel.

Unto Earth-turned-Sea, drowning out History,

Golden bathtubs, boilers bleed and dissolve.

The sky's the limit tumbling over

The last vertigo a wagging tail.