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666 is not the Devil's number

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666 is not the Devil's number

Needles plunge into tender cerebral flesh
Eyes change colors in random patterns
A grey liquid oozes from ears
And blood falls in tear form
Clitordisectomy.Posthectomy.Rhinectomy.Encephalectomy.Pneumonectomy.Glossectomy.
Infected stitches spew puss and burn

666 is not the Devil's number

Chemicals swirl and buzz in syringes
An opiated state subdues the patient
No control over muscles or bowels
Monsters generate from dust under bed
They plant seeds in buzzed minds
Leaving sand in the eye's corners

666 is not the Devil's  number

Enter sandman in the midnight hour
Leave bodies behind and take souls
Spirits otherwise struck down by death
Terminal conditions leaving men in emptiness
Whispering silent nothings in tortured sleep
Trying to crawl out of delirium

666 is not the Devil's number

Their dreams wander to carnal desires
The dial-tone echoes in static skulls
A nuclear bomb blows up in
a third-world country, causing devastating scenes
Snatching breaths prematurely and leaving only
vacant hopes and ash to settle

666 is not the Devil's number

And when it settles, lions come
Albino, bleached coats stained with red
But it's not blood, just feathers
of a homesick cardinal lost somewhere
in the sandstorm outside this dome
Heaving great stones, composing potent songs

666 is not the Devil's number

Babies wail, trapped by brick walls
that seem solid but are just
made of false promises and rules
that crumble after seconds of questioning
And it feels like years passed
but it was only faraway yesterday

666 is not the Devil'snumber
6 stanzas
6 lines
6 words

666 doesn't mean anything in itself.
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