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a Castle of Rats

by The Narcissist Cookbook

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a story about a prophecy, a guided meditation, and, well, rats

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there's this castle of rats
i mean a million of them
butchering each other as they try to get a window open
burying the new dead beneath the old dead
squeezing through any crack in the wall bigger than their own head
and this castle of rats, it's worse than all that
there isn't anything in this world could make me go back
there isn't any meaning in the metaphor
i'm weaving a series of words that hurt me more the more that i repeat em

and it's one two three deep breath and hold it
three two one and let it go
keep crawling onwards even though there's no road
cut your knees to shit
don't scream just hold it

they say that history repeats itself in cycles
well i could walk you through the next ten years with my eyes closed
empires rising to scrape the sky
then wondering why when the sky falls it leaves a crater a mile wide
shit fuck god damn it i'm tongue tied
struck dumb by the notion of another nation in decline
no dough for the gas so go straight to the back of the breadline
keep going to work
keep paying your rent please
keep buying your tvs on a three year lease
keep voting for people who don't give a fuck if you freeze to death in the streets
keep feeding your species to the high priests of the beast and pray
that you make enough in your life to maybe afford a coffin one day
you'll be a willing slave to the global lobotomy
GOD SAVE THE ECONOMY

oop what's that
sorry
oh, a notification from the state-sanctioned anxiety app
apparently people who suffer from panic attacks resembling mine
are 7 to 9 times more likely of committing a crime along the lines of
going on strike
being a nuisance
distracting the workforce
radical discourse in a public space
holding the people to blame for the state of this place
accountable for the decisions they make
and if all else fails, if there's no other recourse
taking the resources we desperately need
from the people that horde them
by force

I have been prescribed a guided meditation
to be completed three times a day or receive a formal citation

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