Could you please pass a little more of her thigh The most pathetic spoils evade us still such constant constraints Have captured us without conviction there is no upheaval The shattered remnants lay in the corner Backs turned to avoid their piercing gaze Memories flutter into our spectres Wretched visions bind ourselves within our minds This worthless cause is lacking face Narrowed and voided we’ve been trapped in space Harrowed and forgotten we’ve been left here to die Hallowed and silenced As they wept we made a decision How many die tonight so that more can struggle tomorrow Tiny limbs can no longer support us Shortest straw lay still within the clenched fist over the spit Winter approaches and we watch our numbers drop The naked snowdrifts mask the hell within A burial ground surrounds our home The unmarked graves are filled with polished bones. The ingested fates of all the damned Is housed by the earth on which we stand The empty carcass we separate Hardly contain enough flesh to substantially support a human being Animals that’s what we’ve become struggling to survive in an obsolete life