"The Wrath of Cons" comes from Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Kahn, which was released in 1982. Due to my father's interest in the Star Trek the film was showed to me at a relatively young age. In the movie the eels crawled into the ears of Captain Terrell and Commander Chekov, which eventually drove them mad. Looking back there were few movie scenes that really affected me on a horror level as much as the Ceti Eels. In this release the Ceti Eels serve as the inspiration and the backbone of this writing.

The eels symbolize critiques against you, and how the things people say can change your view of yourself. Furthermore, how negative voices can breed in your head as a result. One line in this release is spoken as "They're in my brain", but the line is actually written as "They dissect my brain". This refers to the Centi Eels moving around in the heads of the two Starfleet men, but also a statement of trying to understand critiques others have of you. You may then be left wondering whether the hurtful things said are valid. The two second to last lines refer to the eels ability to make their host more susceptive to persuasion. One criticism of mine is that I don't talk enough or am not open enough. In my circumstance these criticisms made me overly conscious of being "too quiet", which persuaded me to talk more, much like how the eels helped persuade Terrel and Chekov. The last line speaks about how the more I talked the less articulate I felt I was. There was a big fear of being misconstrued or thought of as dumb, and no matter what I said language seemed inherently flawed. The line "but human language can't find the right ones" also serves as a slight nod at the many other alien languages in the Star Trek universe.

Love, Lust, And A Goodbye tells the story of a conflicted narrator wondering with how to deal with the end of a relationship. The narrator at first tries to distance himself from the events of the past by effectively telling himself that his past self during the relationship was never him. The narrator instead opts to believe what transpired were events that happened to a friend or a character in a movie. "It’s just a fuzzy film, a projection onto someone’s past". "Fuzzy film" relates to this idea of trying to convince himself it was just a movie he saw, as well as the fact that his memory of the relationship is fading. Later he recounts the relationship he refuses to believe is his, and wonders if he was ever loved. Ultimately, the narrator accepts that the relationship was his own, and forgoes any belief that he wasn't loved. This acceptance and difference in thinking can be seen in the changing from using "he" to "I", as well as the narrator's voice being less digital sounding and more clear.

Nite Of The Living Dead is a horror themed poem which compares coming back to an ex lover to being in a zombie like state.

At the start of the poem the narrator calls to his ex, telling her that he won't be like her other long list of lovers in the past. "There’ll be no return. You're used to killing those you love, you're used to them crawling back, but I’d rather stay in my grave". In doing so he refuses to "lose his brain" by "following his heart". Later the narrator sarcastically encourages his ex lover to find a new victim. The narrator knows full well that she will quickly find someone new to love, only to leave the new guy when things take the slightest downturn. Once that happens she will wait for him to beg to come back to her. This starts the zombification process all over again with someone new each time until she realizes the trail of bodies she leaves behind and wonders why her relationships never work.

The poem was inspired by two movies, Night of the Living Dead, and The Return of the Living Dead. I first watched Night of the Living Dead for a film class I had in my second semester in college. Upon researching that film I learned about and watched The Return of the Living Dead for fun. When it comes to Night of the Living Dead, not only is the poem's title named after the movie, but the movie is also referenced in "I’ll keep to myself like Ben in the cellar". Ben being one of the leads of the movie who survives the apocalyptic night by camping out in a house cellar. Refences to The Return of the Living Dead can be seen in the lines "There’ll be no Return" and "Oh, my Linnea". With Linnea being the first name of the actor who played Trash in The Return of the Living Dead. Other generic zombie references can be seen in the lines "You're used to killing those you love, you're used to them crawling back", "I’d rather stay in my grave", and a brains reference in "I just don’t want to lose my brain". Lastly, "Go bite at your new boys neck" is not only referring to sex, but to the bite that turns people into zombies.