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Civil War

The civil war comes rumbling
through like some angelic beast
fresh-fucked and smiling,
an apex predator,
there’s nothing in nature to oppose it,
the food chain funnels upwards to its teeth and tongue,
never mind the clocks and calendars
its lifespan is that of the human race,
detached, disinterested, never taking sides
it has no favorites or enemies,
everyone is equal fodder for its hunger,
it will eat everything
and disgorge the wealth of earth
to the bankers and generals
who animate it from afar
in a drone game of robots and effigies
joysticking human chesspieces
to wherever they best
siphon blood off into profit.

The civil war lounges
in its ursine smell of heat and carrion,
fur matted with sex and death,
it’s going to colonize you,
spread like a cancer,
fill your life with fire and shrapnel,
displace you to trails of
estrangement and hunger, and
even if you get out of the war
you’ll never get it out of you
it’s going to stay inside you
inviolable and sacrosanct
traveling everywhere you go
eating you from inside-out
chewing the smiles off your face
chewing like a parasite in your belly
devouring your sustenance
eating all you swallow or love
before it can nourish or heal you.

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from The Front Lines of the War, released August 10, 2021

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Will Klingenmeier Denver, Colorado

An omnivore of sound, lover of monophonic plainchants, noise, and the dérive, Will Klingenmeier has spent the last fifteen years living as a borderline hermit developing a distinct sonic palate. He is a sound artist placing emphasis on indeterminacy, code, field recordings and synthesis. ... more

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