After Me, the Flood

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Partly influenced by Regina Spektor’s Après Moi

Ophelia by Sir John Everett (1851)

What is the story about?

Who is the story about?

Gasps!

“We will end up in the grave, at least it was brave”

We contrived the final crescendo

Long before we wrote the first word,

The first word that we uttered nonchalantly

Without missing a single beat

Meat, bleep, glitch. Switch, bitch!

You can’t break that which isn’t yours

I can be broken, which mistake isn’t yours?

Yours bore, you.

I still am afraid of the lame that I am

The game, the dame, the blame

— of/to mine

The casket inside the catacomb

With a gown, adorned heart refused to be made of stone

nach mir die Flut

dopo di me il diluvio

après moi, le déluge

refina, 1/30/2021 4.29 am

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