ONTO THE FACT MORE VIOLENTLY
Poem By: Billy Alsbrooks
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The fire in me
The fire in me resisted the empty air of conformity
Trapped within the realm of becoming
Desperate to reach the other side
They never took me seriously
They never took me seriously?
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I am the younger
The younger chorus that seemed unheard
Wearing a different color of intensity
With a merciless creative energy
It took me a while
A while to awaken to the fact that I never needed anything
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Violent shades of a modern mind
Rooted in a faith that eyes cannot penetrate
Us light filled
Us light filled people best capture the darkness
I said us light filled
Us light filled people best capture the darkness
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Fiercely unsentimental
Fame seems so jaded now
Who has the capacity to bear such ugly truths
Underlying truths of power and weakness
But they all want the glamorous life
The promises of capitalism
Addicted to her validation
They’re just castrated groupies
Groupies so dead that their bodies won’t even cast shadows
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What if you’re wrong?
What if the way you see life is all wrong?
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I’ve come to disturb
Disturb the complacency that you dead fornicate with
For what you think is safe,
Isn’t safe anymore
What you think is risky
Isn’t risky anymore
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The vast gaps
The variant emotional yearnings
My brash and volatile lineage allows me to war
War against the ignorance that is persistently shaping us
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What if you’re wrong?
What if the way you see life is all wrong?
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Onto the fact more violently
With qualities more piercing than sheepish trends
Prose that unmask the animals within
I bring the chaos
The deeply ordered chaos and all her brutality
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I’m not interested
Not interested in saying what you want me to say
I’m interested in saying what actually needs to be said
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I pursue not
I pursue not their fake friends and plastic trends
Therefore I became the trend
The trend that needed no friends
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I’ve come to disturb
Disturb the complacency that you dead fornicate with
For what you think is safe,
Isn’t safe anymore
What you think is risky
Isn’t risky anymore
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Through the violence
Through the emotional violence,
We shall find the peace that we are searching for
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Chasing the uneatable
I’ve become volatile
Dangerously composed
I made the full renunciation of the common standard
Rejected the scourges of the average spirit
For I need not know
I need not know your plans father,
In order to give birth to them
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We are but the fruit
The fruit of eating the fruit
Poetic contagions of an unwavering madness
An alternate world set in motion
Set in motion by the profound utterance of the sacred “yes”
I’ve come to disturb
Disturb the complacency that you dead fornicate with
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I bring the chaos
The deeply ordered chaos and all her brutality
Onto the fact more violently
Onto the fact more violently…
