8. Limbo's Maw

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Lyrics:

I opened wide

And the wide opened me back

I am the throat that learned to bite its own tongue off

Inhale the blood let out a cough

Now I chew the quiet like gristle

Spit out the stitches and make this shit official

Blood on the page

Across the dotted line

Their faces slide down my gullet engaged

Still praying with lips I already declined

I feel their knees in my stomach

Still bent

Still begging

Still delicious

Clawing so ambitious

Hunger is the only god that kept his promise

Hunger never lies

Hunger never leaves the plate clean

Hunger’s the only god who never broke his vow

Hunger never lies

He eats the prayer the future the past the now

Hunger never dies

His only promise kept: he always multiplies

Limbo’s maw

I eat the ones who waited

Their pleas are marinated

Teeth of the nothing chewing

Tongue of the end tasting

I feed on the fed up with a grin

Till the fed up feeds me again

I unhinge to the spine ribs bloom like petals

Souls march single file down no screaming settles

They learned that their cries only season the meat

So silence is sweeter when despair tastes complete

I tongue every crack for the marrow of patience

I suck the last glaze from the glaze of their patience

It tastes like the second that hope finally died

The instant it realized I already lied

Chew the queue chew the queue chew the damned queue

Tongue lasso torsos floss with their vocal cords too

I’m the gastric gospel sermon in the stomach

Preaching slow digestion to the already digested

Glutton for punishment turned punishment glutton

I burp up a halo still spinning still cutting

Acid baptism for the next willing batch

They melt into hymns that rhyme with my hunger pangs

Crunch cartilage cartilage cartilage crack

Bones play best percussion when you drum from the inside

I’m the banquet that eats every guest til its stomach divides

The host who toasts high with a chalice of bile

I’m the echo that starved till it swallowed the throat

That dared to create it now nothing can float

Feast! Feast! Feast! Feast

Till the feast starts feasting the feast

Cannibal calculus cold and exact

One soul minus one soul leaves infinite me in the black

I feel them kicking

Beating on the walls of me

Still praying for an outside

Cute there’s only me

Limbo’s maw

Limbo’s maw

I ate the ones who waited

Their silence is sated

I am the hunger that hunger hungers for

Feeding on the fed

Till the fed

Is me

Forever wanting more

I open wider

There is no bottom

There is only

More

Of

Me