Tag: poem
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Children dancing to death, cursed by Vitus through Osiris
Rufous priests cedartaller, ancestors Irish pirates, summoning cancers Blisters boils weeping pus, shaking hands lances them Bubbling bubos, those waiting shaking so fit to burst Stretched convex dome palm’s width pus-filled Dead skin cells which could neither escape nor be ingested, thence slow green marking infection Wound fresh flesh tender still, it is better to…
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DEIFIED BY MISSPELLING (BIRTH OF HEATHENFATHER DEMOGORGON)
Poetic annals Priding imperfections Electing admit mistake Taken to scribe’s place Of race shrewd he prune-faced, hardly graced by God with special place Before I see his book, a gentile cowan must be given dispensation through His power Before glowering at days yet to flower, funded by His bloody end By habit, beneath roughspun habit,…
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LANGEWAGE
One scholar writes demiurge Scourge all earth, Ur-antagonist Discussion of Panurge discouraged, save by courageous Cathars A cat hair from heresy Sire to all unfair, Job felt, doing good only by err An age later third son of first’s second feckless, thoughtless with feather, scribing drunk as Diogenes Mistranslates to Demogorgon, unwittingly commencing poetic tradition…
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Epicurean Satiation
Esculents proffered for perusal by epicures particular-paletted surplus to dietary requirement Lauding their judging tongues as diamonds, what lies upon them they summary in solemn deduction like wise old Solomon They call the lovely food inedible Words indented, printed made such indelible impressions In sweaty kitchens mounting pressure Hissing kettle chef triple checking and blessing…
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Prophesied Great Turk’s Arrival
Ceasing occident Fusing orient Furies heavensent Orbs bent out of orbit. You said that ere he existed, he was now dead or merely hated existence Loathing creation, artist lately elated devastated at what truthing light reads failure Feeding a novel into the hungry grate Sating themselves with loathing of him, with sin Styxworthy indictments frightening…
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