Leviathan devours all...nNameless agents haunt the shadow worldnStateless numbers plan clandestine deedsnTo the ranks of the long disappearednThey become your whole reality, your silencer, your lonely GodnAnd across the Styx you'll ride,nWhen torture angels come to take you homennSimulated death endured, rope tears into wristsnSwollen head in blackened hood, blinded blistered facenHung upright puking blood, routine torture testnAs minions of the State have their way with younnBeaten, drugged, broken limbsnBurned, drowned, dissidentsnThe work of death, carried out, in all our names... againnRendition is not a problem (until it's you)nnBy what circumstances do we justify these meansnTo codify barbarity in practiced policy?nOn pious, preached morality we're fed until we chokenOur rhetoric, so righteous, rings a joke to the worldnnPower thirsts, power spreads, like tentacles from GodnSecrets, inquests, illusions, and facadesnTalons lock, as vultures flock, spreading from DCnDropped on, Black Sites, erased from memory