Inspired by Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, Lies and Hypocrisy uses a crime style to explore the deeper emotional landscape of guilt. In particular, Mel Vil adopts the physiological analogy of the immune system to portray the unique character of the protagonist Sammy.
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Did we agree these words exist
That they describe our common life
An argument that slipped my mind
A spacetime freed from my orbit
Conflicting opinions generate heat
Friction erodes our platonic consensus
Valence levels require one or the other
But for that to happen bonds break
Releasing vast amounts of loose energy
New worlds are created dialectically
Histories evolve into mutual exclusivity
Our will and our ability fail generally
Having once taken up the mantel
We stand looking around us now
The floor is littered with seeds
Shoots and hotbeds swallow us whole
Fragile components face the elements
Hence we’re susceptible to setbacks
Such as this looping positive feedback
Currently centrifuging the love we had.
Hard to say or measure
But knowing matters
Requires a certain state
Of being possessed
Removed times over
Stretching fog thin
Grasping all context
Breathing rather deeply
Time, distance and closure
Wins, losses, ties
Retreat, withdraw, resign
But yield all data
Crunch this vocal model
Cull extraneous entries
Rationalise into dust
A spacetime line of fit
What’s best however
Is to filter all filters
Assume a warped state
But believe all senses
Shift, tilt and crunch
Twist, manipulate, contrive
Accept probable falsehoods
Foster pristine values
Energy is hardly in decline
But by living together
We harness its density
Organise into nutshells
Stocking into storepiles
Preparing for winter
Our defensive strategy
A symbiosis with life
Highly ontological
Proportional to quantity
Negentropically sound
Annihilating chaos
Yellow and orange harmony
Accentuates the order
The absence of force
Universally meticulous
In pursuing higher function
Unlocking potential
Flooding the mind-body
With ever new chemicals
As yet undocumented
A unique chemistry set
With complimentary ducts
Blending and filtering drugs
Our body has yet to reveal
All of its secrets unknown
By toning down hatred
Dissolving ideas of hierarchy
Only broken childless shells
Wielding power impotently
Basking in neuro-chemical joy
Are yellow-bellied hoarders
Whose close circles shrivel
May never return to Earth
To join the common pursuit
Of those so humble pleasures
Leaving a choice: patria o muerte
Enlightenment or homeland
The awakening of all, for all
Smoke entering the void
Letters appearing on the page
The drafting of new ideals
Bricks of a political economy
Torrential showers of parallels
Similar to a clock dial
Caught in intra-perspective
Half prescriptive, half not
A face emerges in oils
Abiding by customs, yes
But central planning also
Failing cores meltdown
Bringing ideas with them
villemél 
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