Entitled: Absinthe

Crayfish skeletons and broken clay pigeons,
tupperware in the brain traps my thoughts,
expounding conformity, rotten food permeating.
The undeniable stench of humanity is overpowering,
corroding the psyche like spilt battery acid.

Louche words and behaviors no longer as clandestine,
virtue and graces becoming recondite practices.
Overly ripe fruit remains unpicked, forgotten as
the decay spreads through the multitude as a plague,
raging warfare upon the few that remain unbroken.

Spiderwebs cover my heart like a steely blanket,
bubble gum snapping filth and malice in my ears.
Preternatural are values such as integrity and honesty,
exemplary politics mapped out in hedonistic pleasures,
hallucinations of suicide and slaughter, in vitro phantasms.

Persistance brings me to heel, buckling under the pressing hands,
bowing before the eminence of self-righteousness withstanding.