Does anyone know any good doomer poetry? I've been listening to The Dead Flag Blues by Godspeed You Black Emperor, and want more like the bit from the intro.

The bit from the intro:

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The car's on fire, and there's no driver at the wheel

And the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides

And a dark wind blows

The government is corrupt

And we're on so many drugs

With the radio on and the curtains drawn

We're trapped in the belly of this horrible machine

And the machine is bleeding to death

The sun has fallen down

And the billboards are all leering

And the flags are all dead at the top of their poles

It went like this:

The buildings toppled in on themselves

Mothers clutching babies

Picked through the rubble

And pulled out their hair

The skyline was beautiful on fire

All twisted metal stretching upwards

Everything washed in a thin orange haze

I said, "Kiss me, you're beautiful -

These are truly the last days"

You grabbed my hand

And we fell into it

Like a daydream

Or a fever

We woke up one morning and fell a little further down

For sure it's the valley of death

I open up my wallet

And it's full of blood

:desolate:

  • Blinkoblanko [he/him,they/them]
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    3 years ago

    The beginning of four score and seven by Titus Andronicus breaks my heart:

    This is a war we can't win/ After 10, 000 years, it's still us against them/ And my heroes have always died at the end/ So who's going to account for these sins?

    Then later in the song:

    "We're all depraved and disgusting" I spew like a fountain/ "And debased, defaced, disgraced and destroyed/ Most of all disappointed" I say atop this mountain/ As I urinate into the void

    Fuck I'm frustrated, freaking out something fierce/ Would you help me, I'm hungry, I suffer and I starve/ Oh I struggle and I stammer 'till I'm up to my ears/ In miserable quote unquote art

    About how ever since our forefathers came on this land/ We've been coddling those we should be running through/ Please don't wait around for them to come and shake hands/ They're not gonna be waiting for you

    'Cause these humans treat humans like humans treat hogs/ They get used up, coughed up, and fried in a pan/ But I wasn't born to die like a dog/ I was born to die just like a man/ I was born to die just like a man!

    It's still us against them (x14)/ Still us against them/ And they're winning