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Silicon Graves

By jc mcgee

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i'm losing myself in the circuitrythe wires are becoming part of mevague image of a mortal shelldestitutedyingand frailmercury eyesswirl in timebarely alive...barely alive...can you stay for awhile,and loan me a smile?my face is distortedand covered with soresthe pogrom's new meansis the grinding machine-we enter as angelsand exit as whoresi'm losing myself in the hollow flowthe fractured code is all i knowbroken vessel of fading lighta twistedweepingseething blightmercury eyesswirl and dimnothing within...nothing within...sew my woundsand leave me wretchingin the corner of your lust,i never knewhow slow conformingcould eat away at love and trust,i feel so weakand cannot speakbut scribble words to speak my mind,too late it seemsto change these thingsand so i slowly fall behind......sinking into digital madnessamong the silent, silicon gravesprogrammed to relive the sadnessknowing i cannot be saved. Written October 5th, 2001 © on Oct 05 2001 08:53 AM PST, jc mcgee   0 • 1

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"i'm losing myself in the circuitrythe wires are becoming part of mevague image of a mortal shelldestitutedyingand frailmercury eyesswirl in timebarely alive...barely alive...can you stay for awhile,and loan me a smile?my face is distortedand covered with soresthe pogrom's new meansis the grinding machine-we enter as angelsand exit as whoresi'm losing myself in the hollow flowthe fractured code is all i knowbroken vessel of fading lighta twistedweepingseething blightmercury eyesswirl and dimnothing within...nothing within...sew my woundsand leave me wretchingin the corner of your lust,i never knewhow slow conformingcould eat away at love and trust,i feel so weakand cannot speakbut scribble words to speak my mind,too late it seemsto change these thingsand so i slowly fall behind......sinking into digital madnessamong the silent, silicon gravesprogrammed to relive the sadnessknowing i cannot be saved...."

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