Julian Thumm

Everything’s happening just as it should 

Everything’s happening just as it should 
with hateful lucidity
& cringing coherence
& perpetual moments
of vile clarity

everything that falls apart
must face its own collapse 
every being that brings destruction 
must witness what it’s wrought 
the sublime arousal
the culmination 
of every booming vision 

the gripping hand
the stacked odds
the dubious dyslexia 
& maddening myopia
that needfully bends 
to conservative pegs

We slough ourselves down
& slime ourselves open
knowing no better
’cause better is beyond
the frittered 
& fruitless ken 
of our decimated soil 

All we are 
is all we can possibly do
& doing is deaf & dumb 
a dead-end death drive
up an endless slope
but still we flail
fellating the cock of fate 
licking Sisyphus’ calloused sole
maybe a mosquito on Achilles’ balls
in final measure 
a laughing stock 
in our masters’ cannibal soup

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