13,144. I ONLY BELIEVE IN DOOM

 I ONLY BELIEVE IN DOOM

I didn't want your first day, and I'll never

want your last; this life is a cycle of madness.

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Let us go then, you and I.

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You already act etherized, as on a table,

and why then should I care  -  not thinking

Death had undone so many? (These are

faint echoes of a grueling thing).

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Here is that Katzenjammer Kid I

murdered long ago. Fritz the Cat? I let 

him go. I had not the energy for further

pursuit: Grown tired of all this blather.

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Let us go then, you and I.

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The hospital on 109th street seems to call

out  -  about its golden age of cures and

prescriptions. It seems like so many are

flocking to these proclamations. Pills.

Envy. And energized medical Jews?

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I can't get it all, at all. Art and creativity

are so divorced from all of that. Alienation 

is the greatcoat I keep wearing. Let us go then,

you and I....'Time, gentlemen, time.'