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In the damp and somber

where lips sing songs to the worms

A quiet serenade to stasis

the perpetual sleep to affirm

The synergy of body and soil

A coalition in ruin

Whether water or land

engulfs the residual hull

After the last imbibe

the vessel again shall emerge in full

Inhaled adulterators of flesh,

ingested death

Convocation to devastate,

consume, lay waste

Contracted epicure of croup,

sanguine earth

Evocation to desecrate

To barren bones give praise

In the bleak and bitter,

where bodies give rise to gateways

Supple structures in stasis

Disintegration ablaze

The synergy of body and soil

A coalition in ruin