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    Verse // Viscera: Volume 1
    Verse // Viscera: Volume 1
    Verse // Viscera: Volume 1
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    Verse // Viscera: Volume 1

    By Brian Dougherty

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    A collection of four chapters of short lyrical cadences venturing from dark self-actualization to fantasy, Verse // Viscera: Volume 1 takes the reader on a journey from the familiar and relatable downtrodden monotony of a nine-to-five to prophetic nightmares of a dreamworld. Verse // Viscera: Volume 1 is Brian Dougherty's first published work.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateSep 30, 2014
    ISBN9780990550310
    Verse // Viscera: Volume 1

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      Verse // Viscera - Brian Dougherty

      other.

      Humility In The First Person

      Where In The Simile Am I?

      A cogent simile: an architect’s building –

      a source of pride, an accomplishment through time;

      moments pass, structures fail or fall;

      or get the sweet kiss of a wrecking ball

      all in the name of progress or time

      while the architect watches idly by.

      But where in the simile am I?

      Parental Advisory

      I feel it important to state that I support the lost cause. Instead of trying to figure out what’s wrong I’ll just sit and play another song as I wait for you to wake up.

      You’re the paper tiger

      and I’m the lighter that doesn’t work,

      but now we’re in a gas filled room.

      My spark is still good and I care less for my plastic

      than you do for your folds.

      Let the mediums and the medias bastardize a cause.

      Those who come within an inch of death have us a story. Those ones who are dead don’t really do well at telling stories, and he exacerbated the degrading of his company in his out-loud narrative – by using words like exacerbated.

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