1. DEMOCRITUS LAUGHING

The world falls apart into facts
This eternal machine for producing, crushing, swallowing up
A cemetery aimlessly revolving in space
Rot repeating itself
Where are those who were before us?
Driven along aimless desert paths
Abandoned to a wilderness of the unbearable
Lost in the uselessness of pain
See the emptiness within the ruins
The sky teeming with worms
Turn from the good back to the true
Bereft of denial’s dissociation
No return
Wings spread at the falling of the dusk


2. MICE EATING GOLD

The sabbath of the penal servitude of willing is only
the spiritualization of cruelty
The failed transmutation of the sorrow of
being on this earth
Mice eating gold
The hatred of everything
generates images of desolation
Repulsion for all that is a seed
Self-erasing world
To be dead, a house must be still
Let it all be deleted
Let all this foundation of earth become desolate
Wash clean the trick oracle of conscience
Shatter the hateful mirrors that multiply and proclaim
Cut off the splendor of the sun
Cover the moon in night
Roll up the scroll of heaven
The days are ended
The fixed time is passed
Open the way, I will take the road


3. YARINARETH, YARINARETH, YARINARETH

To see what lay behind the blind wall
We light a fire each night in a different place
Yarinareth, Yarinareth, Yarinareth
The blind wall
The imporous border
The judge and ravisher, never sinking or setting
Yarinareth, Yarinareth, Yarinareth
The endless silence of surfaces
All these broken codes
Chains of chronology
A game played by the coincidence that is the world
Oblivion thrives on blood-ripe lives
“So perish all who cross my walls”


4. FAUNA OF MIRRORS

Neurophenomenological cave
A cell without doors or windows
The silence of infinitely open spaces
The abyss of human illusion
Blind unorganism in darkness
An island of pain in an ocean of indifference
A worm crawling upon the cosmic carrion
Confronting two mirrors
A boundless black veil
Swallowing all dimensions
Pain and awareness neurologically fused
Sever the living branch lest it puncture the void
Destroy the present tense of memory


5. THE NORMS THAT AUTHOR THE SELF RENDER THE SELF SUBSTITUTABLE

The norms that author the self
render the self substitutable
The lie we need in order to live
dooms us to a life that is never really ours
Every drive is beset by foreignness
A game played by the coincidence that is the world
Self-discovery, stale and complete,
proves to be utterly futile
The vagueness of the person
in a mechanical world
spinning into decay and death
This silent struggle toward no end and no meaning
Bitter distress endured in secret
Foreboding which dries up all hope
Doleful heart, living in darkness
Wraithlike body on the point of death
The sodden lumber of the body
The heart’s void confronting time’s
The abyss of myself
An abyss in the very realizing


6. OVIRI

The hours that assail all things
Beneath a greater shadow’s wings
The body that performs the I
The body that curls in and dies
Ouroboros-circled abyss
Opposing mirrors of consciousness
Dust is our food, clay is our meat
Mise en abyme, mise en abyme
Beyond the sickness of the soul
Beyond the sickness of the will
Beyond the sickness of the self
Beyond the sickness of beyond
Every second is a cage
Every action is a cage
Every reason is a cage
Circulus vitiosus deus
Oviri