Son of no Master

[Poem]

Pablo Báez and Tom Schecter

May 22, 2025

“May your heart be a Star,

not your Master.”

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  THIN            LAIM

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BEFO                                       NG C    ED A    PACE  
             VERY    G, N

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    RE E        VEIL                                       OTHI   
                                         LL S

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            BLAN    THIN CLAIMS

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A ST    HED     KET. HELLFORGED WILL

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    RETC        OF DEATHS    YOU

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            D ON            SPAC            HING            E.

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HOWLING WINDS SCREAMED HEATHEN HEARTS OPEN

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EVER

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NOTH    MOVE    THE     KET     E FO    ERYT    TO T    PLAC

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    ING  VARYTA           BLAN            R EV            AKE

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NO MAGIK BUT VIOLENCE

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  CLA
WS          FORM    BELCHING   BREAK

ORGANS        SPAC            IME             THIN

FOLD RMED S, F THEM E SP ED T AROU VERY G

S FO ROM ROUT ND E FREE

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            TION    VOMITING
 FLESH

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IN A    IREC    S. TEEL

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    LL D       KOGON

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            ROOT         CLAWS   
UPWA    PUTR        NG

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ID TIME    OUT     S, S    OUT     RDS—    TCHI

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BAB    PUT          HOT             STRE

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Y MEAT            
                THIN            G OV            N SP

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VEI

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NO MAGIK BUT VIOLENCE

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ACRO    VERY    G, B    ETIN    ER N    NG I    ACE

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    SS E            LANK            OTHI

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            NIMA            OM T            DAUGH

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TERS IRID    NT A    SEPA    D FR    HE A    S

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    ESCE            RATE        OF    NIMU

NO MAGIK BUT VIOLENCE

NABERUS EL ITE MAELSTROM ABYSS BLOOMED &

WHISPERED A UNIVERSE ANEW…

SHATTER PURE CHAOS NO GODS NO MASTERS

BEFORE EVERYTHING, NOTHING CLAIMED ALL SPACE:

WILL YOU EVER BREAK FREE?

A STRETCHED BLANKET.

NOTHING MOVED ON THE BLANKET SPACE FOR EVERYTHING TO TAKE PLACE.

NO MAGIK BUT VIOLENCE

FOLDS FORMED FORMS, FROM THEM SPACE SPROUTED TIME AROUND EVERYTHING

IN ALL DIRECTIONS.((everpresent))

TIME PUT OUT ((violent))ROOTS, SHOT OUT UPWARDS—STRETCHING

ACROSS EVERYTHING((staggered)), BLANKETING OVER NOTHING IN SPACE

HOWLING WINDS SCREAMED HEATHEN HEARTS OPEN

IRIDESCENT ((jagged))ANIMA SEPARATED FROM THE ANIMUS

HOWLING WINDS SCREAMED HEATHEN HEARTS OPEN

IRIDESCENT TIME PUT OUT ROOTS, A STRETCHED BLANKET.

FROM THEM SPACE SPROUTED downwards, IN ALL DIRECTIONS BEHIND SEPARATED DIMENSIONS INSIDE WHITES AND GRAYS.

BEFORE EVERYTHING SPLICED FROM THE ANIMUS WOMB.

DENDRITES SHOT OUT IN ALL DIRECTIONS NO FORCE BENDING UPWARDS—STRETCHING THE ANIMA TAUT.

RED EYE BLEEDING ACROSS SPACE SPED THROUGH—BURNING THREADS OF FRAGMENTS OF [WAS] ENVELOPED—DISTURBING NOTHING, BUT BEING, EVERYTHING COLD. Haven sinecure of nothingness ACROSS EVERYTHING, BLANKETING OVER NOTHING IN SPACE, signal the end of empty desire and toxic ties to once secured green fields; jaws agape red wide no words split back in half knees forward say: I will lay suspended in stasis carcasses stacked high above

HOWLING WINDS SCREAMED HEATHEN HEARTS OPEN

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WEEPING STARS WILL DROWN IN NEON BLOOD

HOWLING WINDS SCREAMED HEATHEN HEARTS OPEN

NO MAGIK BUT VIOLENCE

NO GODS NO MASTERS

WRITTEN IN BRAINS ON THE WALLS IT READ: THERE IS ONLY THE WORK

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“Thoughts needle out my pores avoiding a tilt 

as not to spill brain soup

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out my ears; two seas for eyes

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Will they ever break free?

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with no body they don’t articulate as well

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Disjointed—as my own mind apart in pieces

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nestled in blanketed memories in a space of sorrow,

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everything bleeds was, and I can't escape the in between of nothingness. 

You are two seas inside you,
look at the mess you've made
spilling all of that brain soup.

Will you ever break free?

Chains, links, ropes, you're tied—strapped.

Will you ever break free?

Red Eye bled sky stares and sets 
in defeat
only to rise
again

WITH NO MASTER."