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[ SK ] Death To The Living
God's breath
gift of life that keeps on giving
is a pilot light in the night
that can easily be blown out
Forget the only life you've known
Your knowledge is for naught
No slowly Creeping Death am I;
just a fucking juggernaut
Infecting unbeliever and devout
the strain of superflu you've caught
weaponized ill meant to kill
with little borrowed time bought
Will to live? In vain
Oh, how valiantly you fought
Your efforts to remain
a viable species
all for
NAUGHT
Ecstasy
the epiphanies of your agony
as cateracted eyes begin to bleed
from impacted sockets atrophied
Pussed pockets of flesh erupt
with bursting rather abrupt
Inside, organs liquefied
Spine, a collapsed poisoned weed
Thirsting
Fever upped
to one hundred six degrees
and climbing
Death toll continues climbing
No reasoning to the rhyming
Sing it with me now
Spreading the disease
Spreading the disease
Kiss goodbye your loved ones
The end of the world is near
Spreading the disease
Spreading the disease
Tell your friends and family dear
that Captain Trips was here
NAUGHT
NAUGHT
Humanity's struggle to stay alive
all for
N A U G H T
Published 23rd Feb 2017
| Edited 27th Oct 2021
Author's Note
inspired by Stephen King's "The Stand"
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Ugh. I keep seeing that car out of control coming into the gas station, and the attendants getting sick after looking in the window on the mother and baby's side. The description you portray here is just as spinechillingly nauseating as watching it happen.
What fascinated me were the unaffected, like the Andromeda Strain. I know it's just a movie and this is just a poem, but there a bit of truth in everything (and alternatively untruth), that applies to life, i.e.- why certain people contract diseases while others don't.
This affected me most because as time has passed since the movie, strains on antibiotic resistant diseases are popping up. I imagine them beginning much like this, with lab rats experimenting like gods on the course of our destiny.
Or, alternatively, played into the hands of fate. This makes me want to rewatch the movie this weekend. See it through older eyes, and those minute details missed.
What fascinated me were the unaffected, like the Andromeda Strain. I know it's just a movie and this is just a poem, but there a bit of truth in everything (and alternatively untruth), that applies to life, i.e.- why certain people contract diseases while others don't.
This affected me most because as time has passed since the movie, strains on antibiotic resistant diseases are popping up. I imagine them beginning much like this, with lab rats experimenting like gods on the course of our destiny.
Or, alternatively, played into the hands of fate. This makes me want to rewatch the movie this weekend. See it through older eyes, and those minute details missed.
24th Feb 2017 3:59pm
I'm old school. I have the entire movie recorded on an 8 hour VHS. Although today I'm thinking of watching Storm Of The Century because we are getting dumped on with over a foot of snow.
I feel that The Stand has much to do with an unhealthy skepticism that God has a master plan that is eventually met with a healthy acceptance.
Stu Redman was in the right place at the right time to become infected like his friends at the gas station, but he didn't. He was immune, but was it really because God had other plans for him? So the story is not so much the struggle between good and evil, but instead the journey of traveling through all the arguments for and against the idea of predetermined destiny. Flagg and his minions represent the arguments against. Mother Abigail and her band represent the opinions favoring it. The characters in both camps that end up dying are like arguments canceling one another out until mostly one side remains ( Flagg does survive, waking up in another one of King's Dark Tower universes ). The victims of the flu symbolize the casualties of riding the fence that prompt a need to end the discussion once and for all.
I feel that The Stand has much to do with an unhealthy skepticism that God has a master plan that is eventually met with a healthy acceptance.
Stu Redman was in the right place at the right time to become infected like his friends at the gas station, but he didn't. He was immune, but was it really because God had other plans for him? So the story is not so much the struggle between good and evil, but instead the journey of traveling through all the arguments for and against the idea of predetermined destiny. Flagg and his minions represent the arguments against. Mother Abigail and her band represent the opinions favoring it. The characters in both camps that end up dying are like arguments canceling one another out until mostly one side remains ( Flagg does survive, waking up in another one of King's Dark Tower universes ). The victims of the flu symbolize the casualties of riding the fence that prompt a need to end the discussion once and for all.
25th Feb 2017 1:07am
I would post a photo of my VHS tape (double) here...but....as long as I have a VHS player the tapes stay. I still have a cassette player! I wish I could find an 8-track that worked.
Your POV is interesting. I'll have to ponder that one a bit. I always took it as light and dark with the grey areas being diminished in the process.
Your POV is interesting. I'll have to ponder that one a bit. I always took it as light and dark with the grey areas being diminished in the process.
