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The Way of All Flesh

from An Old Chaos of the Sun by Novus spero

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"The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning."

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It was 5 a.m. on New Year’s Day
Parked on the shoulder
Of the Pacific Coast Highway
The swell of the ocean
Like a funeral choir
As we started to kiss
Your lips a funeral pyre
Bitter with ashes
Of defeated desires
But a sliver of light shone
Through the sadness of your eyes
And I swear you had a soul
In the cold comfort
Of my trembling embrace
You whispered your worries
The ultimate fate
Of our lofty ambitions
And our carnal designs
The fire we’ve built
From the fallen scraps of sky
It blows away without warning
Without fanfare or mourning
In a burst of heat and light
And then nothing
That’s the way
The way of all flesh
It’s the virginity you can’t reclaim
The child you can’t be again
The wonders you could not explain
The animals inside us all
Little stardust fetish dolls
Forever at the beck and call
Of pain and desire
The way
The way of all flesh

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from An Old Chaos of the Sun, released March 26, 2020

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Gospel of the final human century.
San Diego, CA / Hemet, CA / Flagstaff, AZ

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