This verse felt a bit like a free-associated stream of consciousness, and it worked for the most part. There were a few good one-liners, though it lacked that cohesion of "pulse." I wish you would be a bit more consistent with your punctuation, not because I expect it from anyone on these sites but because I expect it specifically from you. You capitalized the starts of some lines that came after commas. You skipped a few periods. I don't know. I know you know the grammar expectations, so I look for that.
Occasionally, I stumbled at some of the transitions. These three lines really didn't connect at all for me:
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I'm late for dinner we can feign it's apocalypse.
Say little to lovers unless straight upon their lips,
Stoic, a poet,
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I liked that second line quite a bit, but I don't see how it fits. It almost felt like something you'd wanted to write for a while and simply added in there. I also wasn't a big fan of "A mage with his parlour tricks made me apologist" or "Before ancient armour slid." Both were fun rhymes and turns of phrase that threw off the flow of the writing. (In this sense, I don't mean cadence.)
But I liked the closer quite a bit.