Death Is a Parabola

from Suspect! by Portion Kontrolle

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death is a rocket
traveling on a parabola
where did you leave your mark?
are you proud?

degrade me you death object
for only you can match my own (x2)
we've both been passed over (x2)
unloved, abused, splintered (x2)

wait did that really happen before it even happened?
did the love and the light
be snuffed without even forsight

even a little foresight could've told us a little bit

we don't deserve it anymore
the dream, the hope, the promise,
it's all been to watch a downward spiral

the hummingbirds were, to him, like the externalized version of what he wished he the laborers looked like. it was ugly to see them in their conditions; a reminder of their weakness and slovenly nature, born for nothing but to serve. why couldn't they look like the hummingbirds do?

they too serve, but serve in a state of grace, with an aura that is deserving of respect

whereas all he could feel for the laborers was contempt, even as they kept the factories running, mouths fed, machines oiled, they too operated as machines themselves do, with the factor of human failure acutely accounted for, accounted for,

built into the system itself so as to benefit from the errors themselves

for the machine can make useful anything even the most seemingly benign or counterintuitive, like when one of the forklift drivers knocked down an entire aisle of pickled/jarred produce, rather than going to waste, all the laborers ate a lot of pickled sandwiches

rest assured he never knocked down another aisle

so many things without meaning in the now
meant only to be found in a hundred years among the rubble

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from Suspect!, released June 2, 2021

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