Tag: fiction
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ATEMYCAT
You know I ate the cat because I’m coughing up the orange tail as we chat Low sodium intake Fake monorail, model trains Fuck modern braille, rot our brains Been a minute since I joined the IRA We have a deranged campaign To bring out change with bombs Popping champagne when Thatcher’s got Rock for…
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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…
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Syphoning gas to give her a fighting chance
She persuades me to let her sage me before leaving If it could save you and I didn’t, it would grieve me Full sore, pray leeway A spraying haze unabating, she an Aaron Bathes me in miasmic armour Dispelling harm by charm She insists we wear amulets of her devisement Eyes painted onto shell mottes,…
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Century’s injurious end
With the climate unstable Impatient seasons do not stay long Or delay overlong Until humid, drooping crops rot Without fixity, fluxing winter lasts a half year. During feared summer Acid rains quicklime once-sylvan demesnes Jettisoned for grim, austere tenements Through cracks in a haunted stairwell Farsighted kids stare out, that perilous without None save death-doubting…
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Soul Sucking Doll
Bought an evil doll She feigned to borrow Then stole a soul Swallowed whole Black hole maw gnawing On one’s immortal spirit. Muse, tell through me the facepaling tale of the living fetish Fetch me apt words I might out wretched scripts ripped from the crypt-heart of hell where cryptarchs rest for chiliarches awaiting the…