Poetry: Nothing Left to Defend by Sebastian Vice

Nothing Left to Defend

For as long as I can remember

My life’s been

A transmigration 

Of degradation

Humiliation

Ostracization

Forming a sublimation

Of intellectualization

Of rationalization

Of internalized self-hatred

And pain

That if I was only better

The cycle would break 

For as long as I can remember

I’ve found humanity uninspiring

The political systems

The religions

The social structures

The heroes and villains

insipid and trite

Creations manifested from a being formed

As an evolutionary mistake

For as long as I can remember

I have hoped

That when Mother Earth washes us away

we leave not a trace

Since history is one of decay

Sebastian Vice is the founder of Outcast-Press, an indie publishing company specializing in transgressive fiction and dirty realism. His poetry and short fiction has, or will, appear in Punk Noir Magazine, A Thin Slice of Anxiety, Close To The Bone, and the anthology In Filth It Shall Be Found.