The crude pathology of convention A set array on the grid of coercion WE kneel before the gates We kneel upon the veneer of taste In a hallway, In a wastelot, in the street Sitting safely under reinforced concrete Cover story as identity Unconscious reflex to autonomy Manifesting our own sense of scarcity That long due future built on mediocrity Clutching relics to our chest Eyes wide open to our own interests Looking sideways, looking over, gaining trust Liberation as a meansof closing shut Agency to only isolate Transparency on a doctored stage Treasured and anguished pleasures of living Disease of psyche culminating We calculate our own deaths Elegant parameters of our terminal breaths Uneasy fantasies of flesh and shame Castrated longing for the spinning frame Stagnate blood pools at our feet We stare fixed upon the bloodied sheets Image Restraints Control Process Gains