Habitual Decline
Smokey room of smoke the smoke smokes itself we chill. The beer cans pile up drunken smoke taste dim flickering light the smoke smokes itself. Music sounds like shit the beer is
sick-tasting almost a hint of vomit clothing absorbing more smoke. Smoke this, smoke that. Smoke. Obsessive compulsive consumptive corruption ulcerating daily habits compiling
gastric excitement knots the bowels clean the blood out of the toilet again. Will this shit ever end we chill. Omnipresent smoke of crystal and tobacco, crack and marijuana, incense
sweat blood tripping free clothes from the shelter soup kitchens cigarette butts on the ground we chill. Next month the cheques are mailed the smoke smokes itself the beer cans pile up
drunken smoke taste dim flickering light the smoke smokes itself. The skin rots, lungs blackening and liver failure internal bleeding ulcers tooth loss in the smoke room.
Self-destruction, turning away, violent self-loathing. Turning within, turning inside-out. Smokey room of smoke the smoke smokes itself we chill.
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The message of this could be understood as utter universal indifference. Utter universal indifference of both nature ("the smoke smoke itself"), and man ("we chill").
The only difference between nature and man would then be that nature is active in its workings (the smoke that smokes itself is actually consuming itself), while man is, or seems to be, wholly passive (the fact that, no matter what, "we chill").
So utter universal indifference to everything whatsoever.
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