No Side Effects approve of #NationalPoetryDay. As a special treat, we thought we’d depress you with some of our prose of existential dread.
We have retracted
All our names from the sun
This is enacted
This wave that never turns
All these voices sing and bicker
Reaching out for a slither of gold
But these machines and machinations
Will bring ruin to us all
Flick the switch that makes it fall apart so efficiently
Lay foundations that allow us to build something that can truly fall
And all we have are pedigrees and interventions to bury us all
We are reinventing failure
Our long protracted
Sentiments of how we feel
Our world is divided
Don’t apologies for the things you’ve done
All these engines roar and splutter
A space apart from our worlds apart
We’re certain we can die
So much faster
Smash the bricks so they can crumble much quicker
Recycle our memories and repackage them for another day
When all we have are trembling hands and prophecy
We have reinvented failure
Clear this, clear this faster
Find this, find this quicker
Kill this, kill this cleaner
Take this, take this leaner
Build this, build this bigger
Run this, run this water
Make this, make this torture
Hate this, hate this weather
Share this, share this failure
We revise and analyse
What’s in our skies
With time and lies we pacify
Our resemblance to humans
We rewind and wonder why
Our minds are inclined to satisfy
Our imminent failure.
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