Fragment 56 /Midsummer /Compline /Wed, 23 Dec 1998
Jude is swallowed by the pangs of grief exposed by the cocaine and he lets them overcome him as the night swallows him up.
/by the banks of this town’s river/ /i have sat down and grieved/ /praying that the life it gives/ /will run till i end my song/ /and to run softly/ /for what i now have to speak/ /is to be neither loud nor long/
/before their destruction/ /the star that fell into the abyss will rise to the earth/ /the destroyer that has been bound for the thousand years will be released/
/but nothing will compare to the darkness/ /the darkness from voice of the bridegroom and bride never being heard in this town again/
/the bride will lie dead in the street of their town/ /and they will celebrate thinking their time of torment from plague is over/ /but her blood is found in them and will be revenged/
/the harvest at the close of the age is at hand/
[…] feel as if i am trapped between two lives/ /in a body of an old blind man with sagging female breasts/ /as one who has foresuffered all/ /i have sat below their city walls/ /ive walked among the […]
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