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Austerity
The Ocean

Pouring whiskey in dried-out bodiesnCoarsely hewn by wood and lovenDeep inside them smolders slowlynThick as yeast, green bitternessnnHelpless, their eyes are blindnAnd all their thoughts are simplenTheir ears are deafnAnd all their songs are trivalnTheir loves have gone sournAnd all their looks are vacantnTheir food is foulnThe art they makes lacks the challengenAll their minds are emptynAll their thoughts are simplenAll their songs and books are trivialnAll their ears are deafnnBirds who once flew with passionnNow they're easily caught with bare handsnLocked in cages, learning their lessonsnBullets for the already deadnnTasteless, our tongues are dumbnAnd all our speeches are hollownOur minds are numbnAnd all our books are shallownOur loves are sournAnd all our looks are vacantnOur food is foulnThe art we make lacks the challengenAll our minds are emptynAll our thoughts are simplenAll our songs and books are trivialnAll our looks are vacantnnBirds who once flew with passionnCan easily be caught with bare handsnLocked in cages, learning their lessonsnBullets for the already deadnnCan you still seenThe starsnThe SkynThru layers of grey?nThey're fading away...nnCan you still see the stars? nnIt's hard to think of the oceannWith the sweet stench of piss in your hairnMorning air still invades every wallpaper cellnYear after year after yearnnAll these years those walls were emptynCurtains yellowed, now white with moldnLardy plaster, the paint is peelingnFrom the ashtray: swathes of blue smokennCorrosive watersnBlack rain falls the seventh timenUnyielding minds of coalnJaws opened widenThey changed their beds:nDearly white sheets weeping like shroudsnThis is the chamber where their God spent his final hournCan you still see the stars through layers of grey?nOr have the city-lights taken their place?nnThe stars are fading awaynAwaynAwaynAwaynnEyes leap at the baitnWe march in circles under jupiter's swaynEyes will fall prey to the cheatnOne more surrender and we'll suffer defeat


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