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this one i keep coming back to every several years:
Soul Killer

There is intrigue among the souls, and treachery
No worse fate can befall a man than to be surrounded by traitor souls
Can any soul survive the searing fireball of an atomic blast?
If human and animal souls are seen as electromagnetic force fields
Such fields can be totally disrupted by a nuclear explosion
The mummy's nightmare, disintegration of souls
And this is precisely the ultra-secret and
Super-sensitive function of the atom bomb
A soul-killer, to alleviate an escalating soul-clutch
Scientists always said there's no such thing as a soul
Now they are in a position to prove it
Total death, soul death
It's what the Egyptians call the second and final death
This awesome power to destroy souls forever
Is now vested in far-sighted and responsible men
In the State Department, the CIA, and the Pentagon
Governments fall from sheer indifference
Authority figures, deprived of the vampiric energy
They suck off their constituents, are seen for what they are
Dead, empty mass, manipulated by computers
And what is behind the computers?
Remote control, of course
Look at the prison you are in, we are all in
This is a penal colony that is now a death camp
Place of the second and final death
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change
Only those who can leave behind
Everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape
Don't intend to be there when this shithouse goes up
Nothing here now but the recordings
Shut them off, they are as radioactive as an old joke