The hurt people the land.

Agonized emoting,

left over Abercrombie & Fitch

Sullen, gothic and distorted; digital views

Twisted victims cycles twisting their victims

Further winding the doomsday clock

This land of make believe, hidden in novels

Filmed on backlot sets, unlike our streets

Avenues cum battlefields

Quads aching, swollen with student

Protests violent stride beneath heel

simple facile resistance revolts loud

Against viperous darkness risen again

Yet, all the hurt tell tales,

Selfishly cast protagonists

Play, the game never ends

Only metamorphosis

Sublimates the real, fake

Trollish wheel spun

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