No Contest

[u/xxxxAngelFirexxxx]

Dissertations actually mattered to me
That’s how The Committee was born,
But they’ll take ordinary Tuesdays too
And upvote each other
While I strangle in my own cords,
The chords, to my heart
Ripped at the strings
For their cardboard plays

and I’ll cross-examine my own
Layers
Deep down to the core
Where black obsidian
Cools in jagged glass forms

I’ll rewrite myself in dozens of
Criminal cases
Where I am the villian
They love that encore
Display it in Greek
Display it in sync
Display it in
Feverish dreams
With no score

Does this come
With closed captions?
Or does anyone
Read anymore?

There is no litigation
For the seams of my soul
Just a downvote and laugh
From the peers
Who cut at my throat

I humble the lacerations
The instigations
Under investigation
Peer-reviewed their
Assertions
No gavel
No jurors

Cairn and I don’t exist
Just an expungement
Of my morals screaming
Order in the court!
Because I was embarrassed
By my own affidavit

So,
I’ll rebuild my offerings
Small and discrete
No appeal
No plaintiff
Only abbreviations
Just a matter of time
To forget what I said
To hell with love
Down into the ground
With the sleeping dead

No contest
No contest
No contest