Tag: horror
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The Reptile
Dysfunction in his erectile Took a bunch of homemade meds Not a single clinical trial Then became a reptile The dead of night his favoured time For venturing out to his hunting mile Wearing a long jacket, detective style Hides a ridge of spikes along his spine Trudging forthcoming heads turning tides Temper turns on…
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Deepdeepdown
My words from tuna depths are unfortunately tuneless and tone deaf They get no audience, no applause, no interest Divested of consumers, the esculent expires I’m a pile of rumours, secrets and spies Not a jay stirs without my foreknowledge of its flight I am the referee and the fighter, holding a whistle and two…
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Visions of processing ghostmonks
Rootless life here hopeless, without a notion Stasis which reflects my emotional status Where only dead trees grow Where snow-coloured bones poke up from stoven tombs I’m in the place where most won’t go Swinging my sword and pacing Trying to erase that which effaces me I stroll through phalanxes of defaced graves The dust…
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Visions of dead people
Flight instinct kicking in Stick around, source within Skin thin Bones seen beneath Inching obscenely In the fingers, at the cheek Even during sleep Creaking, squeaky greasing easy The wheel of a bike careening Spinning long after a car hit its driver head on Haunted by dead cyclists, suffering infringements At vision’s fringes, their boldness…
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And out come the sharks
Planks come loose from the trireme’s flank Like a flooded arena on the Emperor’s birth night Flaming men jump over the side and into the sea Bodies which sank the same regardless of rank Are set upon by shank-jawed blood magnets Magnates of the brine planet, baleful magistrates Whose every gavel check is a pronouncement…
Alchemisland 