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Bible belt, the noose of southern hospitality

Hypocrisy swinging in the breeze of ligaments, sinews pecked away, your once stupid grin slapped on that pasty face, now bites its own tongue in solitary decay

The stinking, burping, and caustic wind, singing the scripture

The new, the old, testaments to the existential struggle beyond our own mortality and psychology

Now itself an allegorical malady, pathos, pathetically

Refusing to let go of the very necks which once were risked

Mother nature, father time, child of light, infinity of spiraling black matter

Lurking through bile-laden air, gulping at truth, you fish out of water

My nervous father, ringing the clarion of the child yet to be

Announcing my birth, stealing my life, nailing shut my future self