Here I am still intact, and I should give myself credit for that, but I =
Have cast a stone deep into my throat, I squat on land my feet won't =
Reach, the smell of blood and bile and bleach, I need a square foot and =
A rope. We can weave, we can unravel, we keep on sleeping right through =
Our travels, we can weave, we can unravel, take our confusion to a much =
Lighter level. Spit it up and hand it over to yet another child of =
Squallor, pallid wheezing lost all her color, her dark circles getting =
Darker, he crossed her palm, but nothing seems to wake her from her =
Shitty dreams, now she's become just one more helpless package of doom. =
The city looks especially vindictive tonight, that hitchhiker looks like =
He's headed home to murder his wife, well it's a proven fact they don't =
Respond to every call for help in time, so there she stays, poor little =
Girl, lying on the floor of a dirty bathroom, no folks there's no =
Device, no box of gods to descend and take this tragedy, tie up all the =
Loose ends.
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    Existentialist angst, pure and simple, and a tad pessimistic at that.

    We're alone in a cruel world, with no one to save or redeem us from on high and no guarantee of tidy endings (ie, no deus ex machina).

    Looking to the sky for help is for naught and, likewise, looking for any higher meaning or reason in it all only serves only to confuse and distract.

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