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Layer by layer

A tectonic hatred,

A thousand year bayonet

Circuits

Converging

Protocols encoded in darkness, in victory in defeat, insatiable

Hidden

And known

Unsecret, Unknown knowns, complicit, inherited

Device

Of paper and thought and flesh

A soul is a coin is a brick is a knife is a shovel is a gun is a ditch is a House is a debt is an end

It hasn’t always been this way

Walled in and burning

The Earth is a crematorium.

For we know

There is but one god ($)

And he is starving

Layer by layer,

They shape, thought form king, ghost boss, nongod

Our world computes

A flattening annihilation, grand iron, billowing steam

Buer’s gaze

Pitiless as the sun

For its strength

It must eat.