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The Royal Road

Alex S. Johnson

Now is the royal road driven to slush, our data-driven fingernails dragging corpses clean.
Now is corruption, the dominion of shit: our noses sniff the
stink-wheel.
Where is the royal road burnished, holy, studded with
angelic bolts?
It became a highway for sanctimonious phlegm.
And the sails of Kali swept onwards towards the night’s final theater.

It—the sucking slits of soldiers in the plaster, funny infantries permuted for their survival—loves the chance of trouble. They—scavenged from the first creation,
are committed, the flaws and bubbles in sparkling vultures, this chronology of wonders witnessed by you alone.

As a mis-en-abyme, the identical heart shot with Druidic bullets, they—oh decadence
of infinite oceans unfiltered by reason, shooting a dummy plot for an imaginary flat in the Latin Quarter—conceal a smart idea in mists of drama.

When nurses take all things bugs to the river we dreamt of last night, a lover of iced statues creeps inside the fuck-out machine, portrayed in lineups of impossible criminals.

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