Leaves of Lassitude

Evolution and synthesis of fear, anxiety, apathy and grief

In September 2020, I lost someone to old age.
This collection is about him, for him, and in memory of him. I hope that it speaks something to the evolution and synthesis of fear, anxiety, apathy and grief.

In August 2025, I lost someone to disease.

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Afterworld

Resurrection spells will hit the market soon
They’re not selling them yet, but they will
They’ve been spying on correspondence like crazy
When nothing else profits, might as well pivot
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Joy

Did you rejoice when torture left you?
Do I rejoice when a tourtured soul leaves?

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Residue

I am a ghost at home
I haunt it from a different continent
Reality that consists that place
Exists across time and space

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Lassitude

Since I went to your grave that day
I keep imagining things now
What happens six feet under
Maggots, decaying, and the like

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Liberty

You were my first true loss
Not much else was my worry
In losing you however
I did not foresee Liberty

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Sand

I sat until dawn in my pointless vigil
The one thing I could still do
Should I flip that hourglass over?
Or leave time dead like you?

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Nightmare

Lingering nightmare of departure yours
Lucidity of it, I blame my conscience for

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