Zelda and the Burnout

from Venn Diagrammatica by epochrypha

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Ric Starling, stranded on a distant desert world, ponders an old key that used to pilot the Chariot Zelda -- before he left her, and his car refused to drive him around anymore. But that's why starlings have wings, right?

This key I keep will never start
Will never kick ignition
For it was me who lost the heart
Subtracting the remainder of my division

I found you in the deadest ice and snow
I found you and delivered you right home
I found you when I'd lost all I once knew
I found when I had nothing I might find you

So right away we went road-trippin
Brooklyn to Chicago
Nashville's saccharine, I found sickening
But it was worth the drive, tho
Still habits come and calcify
What seems so certain turns out
To leave you like you left her too
It peels away and leaves a burnout

Who left you in the summer's promised glow
Who left you when the future was unknown
Who left you after coming all that way
Who left you and who threw the rest away

Now all I have left's a paper trail
That gives me no more options
Just time to pay off this betrayal
With forgiveness from the forgotten

So this key I keep will never start
Will never kick ignition
For it was me who lost the heart
Stalled the engine's revolution
Choked the clutch
Snapped the belt
That timed all these decisions

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from Venn Diagrammatica, released October 17, 2016

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epochrypha Indianapolis, Indiana

In the future, interstellar travel advances too rapidly for us to resist.

Our intrepid voyagers will face the 7 Hermetic Soul Powers:
1. Darkness
2. Desire
3. Ignorance
4. Call of the Void
5. Kingdom of Flesh
6. Wisdom of Flesh
7. Wrathful Wisdom

So spake St. Magdalene, Discordian priestess. Alber Tross would bring down a whole ship for thee, O Mother of Madness! #haileris ... more

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