Mudvayne Alien [2021] -

Functionless. Feral. Free?

Let me be the spore in your clean room. The wrong note in your lullaby. The knuckle in the clockwork. mudvayne alien

The atoms are still counting.

And they are not finished with me yet.

I press my palm flat against the bathroom tile. Cold. Good. Pain is a language I still understand. The other one—the one they want me to speak, full of please and thank you and I’m fine —that one corrodes my throat. It tastes like nickels. Functionless