Grand opening of my murderhotel

Psychosis I’m on my psycho shit

Embracing Bates

Motel open for business June eighth

I must bloodlust sate

Deinsaning by exsanguination

First ten guests will be slain complimentarily

I leave this off the leaflet.


Even in high summer, trees here leafless

Sun seen in glimpses fleeting

I hear bleating, sheep, see them bleeding on golden fleeces

I keep pictures of them, pieces of lace from dress hems

Safe in my secret space, where my mother is displayed

Her tea this instant awaiting, notepad I away 

I am the wolf heard baying at the pale one

In a lace girdle my corpsemother wore

Painting shower curtains with essence.


Afterwards wallowing gore’s quotient, like a new ocean

Crawling through their letted blood as a rite

All in white like a bride, leeching 

Muttering whores as I bleach streaked floors, wearing soiled drawers

In whispers oneiric hearing flashes, word for death in Irish fixes

In the puce craw that lords my doings, I am truant to the foyer bell

Because I am stuffing a corpse-bulging burlap into the back well

You would be well to be away from here, lady

I do not say

Proffering keys from a ring, clinking into her palm, number sixteen

Lead the way.


H.H. Holmes on opening night

Infernalite in sight of citywhites

If you could see those plans

If you could clasp those hands

Freezing cold as a whale’s fluke

You would, having puked, rebuke

This as wasted genius

A mind otherwise engineering twisted heinous

Was I made so or raised, were these horrors fated

Knowing not whether I suffer dearth or surfeit of Venus

Which of these things sculpted my demon

Let me demean so, without feeling

A sky you see, blue as a sea and seized with ceaselessness

I see a ceiling utterly deplorable, imp-flown dome imprisoning.

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