Karōshi

from The Cleft Between What Is by Blatant Lupus

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White empty prisons symmetrically holding dead machines.
Between tight walls my tired eyes reflect the moonlight staring in.

The screen stares back, smoothly hums and keeps my company.
All the other bees have long since left the hive to try and grow humane.

My human motions have escaped my mind a while ago.
I’ve only been existing in numbers and diagrammes.

Then my eyes collaps from an overdose of harsh synthetic light
And my head falls on the desk. Soon a snoring meets the roaring of the screen.

Last week that one girl in the office
that looks like she came right out of the movies
smiled at me from her cubicle-cell
and I couldn’t sleep the whole night.

I can handle another double-shift,
the extra bucks will get me a nice holiday, but...

Last night on the news they said
the terrorists could be here anytime now!

How come I’ve enough to eat
but still feel like I’m starving more and more every day?

Sometimes, when I’m real’ messed up
I think of just quitting my job and tearing the whole place down!

Each day‘s getting shorter
Though speed is increasing.
We are productive
Cause life‘s become lifeless

As the disillusion of my dream blows out
I wake up to the fact that I‘m way behind schedule.

So I pop a pill
And quickly fill
My throat with half a dozen coffee chips and hack onto the keypad.
- It feels so strange... -
Life‘s flashing past now!

(My breath‘s getting shorter.
My heart-rate‘s increasing.
Limbs growing powerless,
Consciousness fading!)

As I watch my missing out on the only chance I‘ve had
My last thought‘s that I know now:
I should have never become this!

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from The Cleft Between What Is, released December 20, 2014

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Joonas Roscher
Felix Werfel
Leo Fischer
Alexej Wieber

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