sub
instead of
or intransitive verb
acting as an instead of rather than the real thing
is the submarine heading into the dark waters
(don’t believe them, it’s actually quite warm in there)
is the sub’s meaning only to bring down the rest of the words

high primes and low subs
that is the created world
obsessed with money and sex
substitutes, indeed, for the work still needed
time ticks delusionally when intimately applied
acting real rather than instead
bringing man’s chin high now that sub is now prime

and it just lies there
an open wound breathing
pushing the tainted green bloodstream along
swallowing up the land of the forefathers
the dreams of the forgotten
devouring the forsaken

the first note on a musical scale
the first hour of the day
the finest quality

ingested into a system and
bound together by the connective tissue of its organs
the chaos seems to need itself in order to thrive
efficient
seamless

it is all very protected
this sub-prime vagina

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