Revival Play

Rivers moling their way to Jules Vernes’ internal oceans

Their frothed commotions roused by monsters like Komodos

Bred with Kodos

From outside our Cosmos

The King wears purple to attend the Gala, his stall farther forward than others

The King in Yellow will be performed, the King in Yellow is in attendance

His visible attendants make people cough when they pass

His hidden factions heelbrought by his hydra lash ready his ashes

Invisible remnants fester like a leg after Borodino

More wounds than Boromir, must borrow vitality

Until flesh clothes, stage deaths are ritual fatalities

While perfumed soliloquies drop from the producer-fucked mouths of actors, grim realities

Hack lung prayers they utter these, clothed bones skinned green like one drowned or diseased

The deceased given life, the living drained

Dreams from the Dark One deep beneath waves

Dreams from the Dark One to make men insane.

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