Palace

by Slow Knife

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It’s the brick colossus, coronated with a neon sign,

It’s glow’s a cattle-brand that claims our precious lines of sight.

Condemned we were (since rubber shunned the primal scene) to fight,

Against these barricades man-made, to grasp a glinting goal.

The magic letters flicker like an evanescent soul.

9’0 clock, we’re cracking rocks, far not from it’s red glare.

5 pm., we’re scuttling home, 

incapable of caring,

for maxims gemmed, ensnaring 

the enlightened sages few.

The multitudes precocious are 

by time’s sharp hands run through.

P-A-L-A-C-E; anxiety,

Sinking in a pool and carrots cruel jeer at our reach.

The word of pleonexia, plump priests of Mammon preach.

Friday night; the din of daft, self-medicating men,

shall perish soon and radiate o’er them it shall again.



Palace!

Palace!

She gleams. (x10)



It’s the indefatigable force incessantly pushing,

Mining,

Digging into the heart,

With the nefarious objective of reducing it to a woefully hollow mass,

With holes aplenty sending invitations out,

To all of Tartarus’ sons.

The war begins as soon as we have sinned…yes, yes

Propelled we are from, 

Yonic portals,

Into a harrowing obstacle course that cuts through spirits

Like Perseus’s blade

And all who’ve met my gaze have turned to stone.

Rocked we are by realisations, sending Santa to the block,

Cocked have been a billion guns,

Each aimed at our names

And fame’s reserved for the selected few.

Tobacco knoweth how to blow,

Plights away for a time,

But like the hordes of Xerxes,

This immortal scourge returns

And tortures us as Kierkegaard expressed.

Being is Thermopylae; a teardrop of a stand,

Mustering all that we have in hopeless wars forlorn

And doomed to be betrayed by our lassitude or scorn,

But bravery retards their grim advance.

A stoic can keep hurricanes at bay…bay.



Palace!

Palace, She gleams… (x8)

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released August 16, 2021

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