The screams of today's headlines:
"Body found at Canandaigua Lake Outlet...
Police: 2 dead at Beverly Hilton in murder-suicide...
Man breaks into VT home cut self on window dies...
Girl, 5, killed, sister and mother critical in Santa Ana hit and run..."
Da Dong!
Do you hear the darkness of death
and the clang of the bells ring...ringing?
Da Dong!
Do you feel the sorrowful sadness of death
feeling death's stallion burning you with hot breath...breathing?
Do you see the path paved in Crimson skulls?
Do you care?
Do ya?
Do you taste the grizzled tendons in your mouth?
Do you care?
Do ya?
Da Dong!
Do you smell the putrid decay of death
its dark stench rot...rotting?
Da Dong!
Do you hear the black blood within death
as its rancid liquid begins to boil...boiling?
DO FEEL FEAR! DO FEAR DEATH
When we are so good at making it...
Do you hear the darkness of light?
hear no evil...
Do you feel hatred within love?
feel no evil...
Do you see black inside white?
see no evil...
Do you taste death on top of life?
taste not...
Do you smell decayed flesh in a midnight lily?
Either way...
Death can smell you
On all five senses of his boneless hand....
Do you care?
Do ya?
Do you only care about the dying
when the cameras are rolling?
You should lift your hands high
and whisper a prayer for the dying...
Or do we dip our feet into the fire
and bring our eyes toward the living?
Do ya?
Do you hear death's song in the wind
as it sings to the air whip...whipping
Do ya?
Yeah...Good Times...?
Yeah, my friends, the song is the sound
of death's woeful weeping
because he knows...
he knows the darkness of light
as death becomes us all...
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