The poisonous bliss
Veracity once hidden
In reality’s nuance
Insincerity dripping
Like melted gold
From crimson lips
So enticing
It’s no wonder few are able
To refocus and see
The source of the truths
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A broken Victrola needle
Skipping in place
Repeating the same stirring line
A heart-pounding Aria
In time to the kicks
I now repeat in a growing line
The sharper the kick, the
Shinier the dime
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Pay is calculated based
On ticking time
So the needle drops
With a scratch in the
Endless vibrato over again, like
Your favorite movie-filled
With senile groundhogs
The longer it goes on
The harder you look
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Life becomes more surreal
More disgusting like
Pigs being sent to the
Slaughterhouse
Every bit ground
Into ballpark dogs
Memory making meat
Hitting it out of the park
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Going home to the backyard
Deer haunch
Thrown over the fence
Like I lived in the garbage bin
Guess it was near enough
Grandpa took hold of it
Bare handed
Hauled it out to the curb
Rotting, stinking, flies buzzing
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Never did go hunting
Now we all just sit drinking tea
Filled with bobbing chunks
Of white cracked ice
In this record-breaking heat
Listening to voices melt
Filling in the grooves
With freshly zested lime
K.B. Silver
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K.B. Silver
K.B. Silver has poems published in magazine Wishbone Words, and lit journals: Sheepshead Review, New Note Poetry, Twisted Vine, Avant Appa[achia, Plants and Poetry, recordings in Stanza Cannon, and pieces in Wingless Dreamer anthologies.
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Knightly Orders of the Eidruian Empire
Ancient or Pre-Megantani orders: Order of the Misty Glade: Knights of the Order of the Misty Glade are keepers of the rugged places and natural resources of the Eidru Empire. They are charged to both locate and keep account of available levels of valuable resources such as wood, fresh water, certain minerals, etc… When one resource dips too low, they dispatch knights to search out new deposits or avenues of extraction. The pick is the Order of the Misty Glade’s favored weapon and symbol, the iron head bearing the Knight’s badge number.
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I love how you've put together these vivid, sometimes jarring images to create a sense of cycling through repetition and disillusionment. The last image of drinking tea with lime while "listening to voices melt" brings an interesting moment of stillness after all that intensity almost a weary acceptance or pause.