Tag: gothic
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Shot dead at the end
Scram when my gun blam Son of Son of Sam Your last moments caught on cam Scared shitless in the lift, Elisa Lam Lost in the apartment complex I’m on the escarpment like rooftop party, dressed for the army Convex part of scope hyperbole fixed on you, say hi eternity Turn a man to meat,…
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Nights in the potter’s field
Come with storm like boredom Again visiting bottle’s bottom Sodom’s last surviving citizen, rest got singed I cavort with scornful forms in the halls of aborted life Hades how many graves In mirthless mournful surrounds, rat sounds More squeaking than ball courts. Take a lich road to the boneyard Smell of ammonia and charnel, harmful…
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What Ice Team 4 found
Somewhere light ne’er tarried Far in an enduring North A thousand year storm Violently gyring, jarring stained empyrean Swirling animate inkspill From which fizz trines of lightning A dark plain blinking away Harried glaciers reforming In form like jewelled titans By worldly orbs burdened. There, residing frigid fissures Gelid foundling, who swimming oxygen drowns Guttering…
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Pagan Hellmass
Rabid Cthulhu fantasists raving Supplanted from blast’d heath To the rat heat of yon townships Upturned fruit crates, Jim Larkin hands Preaching hatred, lessons of Atlantis Mankind must learn again, vantage Heaven, whence men seem menace The world will be as a Venice. Men living still weeping Clinging to poles above water’s lip Sun eclipsed…
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Standing Vigil
For a consumptive waif Babe still I volunteered to wait Morning ’til Upon sill alighting, ’til dawnlight In her society. All night I was to wait Stillstaying A priest to pay my wage Tuppence day For pay such men slay demons, eh? Nods me away. Figured muchly would enjoy it Humour’d mordant But when I…
Alchemisland 