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King Bug in the Wasteland

from Two Brothers and a Ghost by Flagland

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Ozwald Branehart kills himself. The ground where he was buried turns sour; everything dies and nothing can grow. More and more children kill themselves and are interred nearby, creating an ever growing swath of dead desert. Ten years pass and the wasteland is huge. The dark and powerful energies of grief, pain and pure rage accumulate around the corpse of Ozwald. Insects fill his coffin, then the corpse itself, reanimating it with a depraved sort of undeath. This creature, King Bug, the writhing hateform, is unleashed upon the world, seeking revenge on anyone who could possibly be blamed for the plight of the children. Namely, everyone alive. He aims to smother the living in his pain; to fill their lungs with bugs.

King Bug…

Everybody knows
Everybody goes.

Rising, rising, rising
From the dry, cracked earth monolithically,
The tomb of Ozwald Branehart
Splits like a skull
Spewing forth the caustic contents
It could no longer stomach.
And writhing, writhing, writhing,
A lone figure dripping in the desiccated wasteland
Stands the one last, true king,
The one king this world deserves:
King Bug.

Choke. You’re gonna choke.

I am the death knell of this world
Set in the seven dimensions curled.
I exist in a thousand places
Wearing many a name and faces.
I am the vengeance of a thousand suicided sons
Crawling out of the ground to choke you on your tongue.

Choke. You’re gonna choke.

Make way for the poison king
Infecting everything.
Make way for the rotten god
Made out of insectoid arthropods.
What have
I done?
This one’s
Coming alive.
Is this hell?
Can’t tell…
Oh well,
Everyone dies.

Feed this nightmare and it grows!

My friend right to the end,
But when it’s over he’s back again.
He’ll burn, or is it my turn?
We are the fallen, we are the spurned.
Does the eye passing me by
See all the screaming hell that’s inside?
Last night I had a dream:
Bit by bugs and then scream,
And I saw you there!
My god, covered in blood.
He’ll burn this whole dang world into crud.
My rage on every page…
And I thought the fire would tire with age.
King Bug says he’s not real,
Just some anger I feel.
But I saw him there…
Die like the kids.
You’ll all die like the kids.
This world will die like the kids.
Die like the kids.

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from Two Brothers and a Ghost, released July 21, 2017

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