Cavalcáde

Sole-scribed effigy,

Payload of our velvet night,

Destination in the act;

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Dealer in the shadows--

Amorphous--

Sinking hearts and sinking fangs.

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Herald of the distant beat,

Passing you by in the street.

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Macadam shore flowing yonder,

Parts seas and skies and greying heavens.

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Fumbling chances in the midst,

Doubts a-righting graveyard ships,

Sails primed and ready afore the dawn,

Strung as daisy chains below,

The lunar maw of dark enlightened,

No return the point since crossed.

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Swaddled echoes,

Forsaken lust:

Present, past, and all,

to dust.