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Jul 2023 · 103
Dear friends
Maniacal Escape Jul 2023
She'll never understand
These callous lonely bitter eyes of mine.
He'll never see beneath,
These shallow ghostlike poisonous personas
In this charleton pantomime of mine.
Jul 2023 · 95
Ugly spots
Maniacal Escape Jul 2023
Field Ball
Hedge Row
Corner stone Pop game.
Junk mine
Get mine
Huff mine
All Mine
My game
My Will
My job
My Life my party my death my mud.
Jul 2023 · 191
Ladies and gentlemen. Him.
Maniacal Escape Jul 2023
We've been floating through indifference
The sting so sour it hurts my eyes.
Cradled in safety, the latch bent on your smile.
Two arms around us, a warmth know only lies
A raft sinking slowly, a promise from your reprise.
Tomorrow a dream, next week a fantasy.
The lion, the Neverland the Ocean of myths.
Our untold fable,
Our panorama secret
Jul 2023 · 206
The bitter end
Maniacal Escape Jul 2023
Spit out your pride,
Force out your tears
Your feelings feed only me.
Hang out your friends
Lay down your family
You know you belong to me.
I'll hang myself dry
In a storm of vitriolic judgement.
Come now with me
Down to the basement
The dust bowl
The beggars urn
The end.
Jul 2023 · 437
Set bar
Maniacal Escape Jul 2023
A case of whiskey for the judge.
A jug of beer for the marshal.
A spit of ichor for the prisoner.
A fine judgement for the downtrodden.
A fair judgement. From a man. In different robes
Jul 2023 · 71
Ghastly
Maniacal Escape Jul 2023
Glassed in the face,
Hands torn from the bone.
The mirror shard glances a look .
It drenches itself in talc.
A pure white terror.
The red leaks through,
Taking a slow country drive over its skin.
The shards purposefully placed.
An easter island oddity.
It wipes its brow,
It stings some more.
Pure white powdered hot pain.
Its beautiful.
Jul 2023 · 66
The hum.
Maniacal Escape Jul 2023
He lay there in his pit
He looked at his thigh.
His unimportant plain skinned thigh.
And let the calm still day wash over him.

Surrendered his mind
Abandoned his thoughts.

As the gentle din caressed his ears.
Jul 2023 · 65
Sunshine and rainbows
Maniacal Escape Jul 2023
The end came and went
As the tide licks at the shore.
He stared at the horizon
Its infinite dangerous glory
He stared and he was ok.
Jun 2023 · 66
Wide eyed Granny
Maniacal Escape Jun 2023
Whack a mole,
Catch a moth,
Crush a spider.

'This is not your best darling'
'put it away '.
'save sass for politics '.

'not here though darling '
'politics is for those who ain't got not no love in thier lives'.

' not like you and me.'
Jun 2023 · 194
Sundance
Maniacal Escape Jun 2023
Our salt will stain the sky
As we pray everything's alright
We huddle as the meteors crash by.

Hold hands into the night,
A star! is all we cry,

Calamity crashes
Salvation in flames
As we fade into the night.
Jun 2023 · 92
Fanciful wishes
Maniacal Escape Jun 2023
Your head in my hands,
Breathing slowly my scent
Choking and joking
It isn't as real as it is to me

Nuzzled in close.
My boosom in bloom.
Coughing rejecting
I dream of time when you can just love me.

I wash you away
A **** down the drain
Your silence are screams
I wish you would just make it up to me.
Jun 2023 · 208
Tantalising torture
Maniacal Escape Jun 2023
Laid cosy with you
In our Judas cradle
Blankets up tight,
You inside me
Stuck here suspended
Inertia distended
Holding my hands as you bled my heart empty.
Jun 2023 · 79
My Corsair
Maniacal Escape Jun 2023
It's impossible to know,
How much I miss you.
In these melancholy tides,
I search for you.

Wishing on the horizon,
to feel close to you.
A mirage in the sand.
Longing to hold you.

Sail around the world,
And come find me,
I'm waiting, where you left me,
On the rocks where you held my hand.

Sail around the world
And come hold me,
I'm waiting in our place
Where we said we'd never leave.

Sail around the world
And come save me
I'm standing on the edge
On the edge where we first kissed.
Jun 2023 · 228
Drunk on a rock
Maniacal Escape Jun 2023
Sea rolls in
Sea rolls out
Seagulls screech .
Friends come.
Jun 2023 · 104
Wooden woden
Maniacal Escape Jun 2023
I fell in love with my idol
He toppled me, I lay flat,
He towered me, I stood strong.
He cast me out. I'm done praying.
The totem rodded me
And I received.
Let someone else prostrate before that draft ******* plank.
Silly painted branch. Graffitied with lies.
Jun 2023 · 196
Debuff salad.
Maniacal Escape Jun 2023
Jam. Pickle. Poison.
Relish. Garnish. Poison.
Chutney. Flourish. Poison.
Poison. Poison. Poison.
Jun 2023 · 72
Encoreless
Maniacal Escape Jun 2023
Can I have my medicine?
The fist smashes through the cabinet,
Holding a blooded hand of normal.
As the mirror shatters,
And the hand insists,
Its life drip trailing across his choice.
He decides no.
He's ill. He's bloodied. He's lonely.
He's terminally free.
He stares into the glass as it warps away whole.
The blood pools and drains. And swirls.
A pantomime sworn in and sworn away.
Never again will he pill up for pantomime.
When the stage he rots on runs him by.
They bow and decay.
And he stands lifeless.
As the show rolls on.
Jun 2023 · 89
Onion's
Maniacal Escape Jun 2023
Ripped away,
When we said we were close.
She won't love you like I can.
Yet here I am.
Your dead allotment.
Bitter and fertile. Just how you left me.
Maniacal Escape Jun 2023
An adult discussion.
A slave to his name, as long as he's happy.
An axe to the face. A wound he can warm in.
A slash to the heart. A cave he can scheme in.
An ******* he can dine in.
A feast for his ego.
No raised words.
No arguments.
He can't unfuck me.
An adult discussion.
Jun 2023 · 68
My mate Henry
Maniacal Escape Jun 2023
Henry's come to town.
Hose blazing, pipe's choking
Engine whirring
Henry's come to town
Town buzzing, apothecary open.
Henry's come to town.
Dust dancing, bags empty
Carpets trembling, dust lines vanishing.
Henry's done in town.
Carpets sparkling, bags are clear.
Towns sleepy apothecary's empty
Henry's been in town.
Henry smiled as he trundled back home.
Jun 2023 · 292
Give me more Sugar.
Maniacal Escape Jun 2023
Salivating, you swirl around my tongue.
My taste buds drown in your pleasure.
My teeth stand strong, knees weak.
The moment is gone.
Draining down the throat.
My teeth rot. My brain begins to frenzy.
My tongue longs again for your affection.
Clammy fingers fumble the bag.
Salivating once more,
Hand comes to mouth.
Jun 2023 · 63
Bustling emptiness.
Maniacal Escape Jun 2023
Sometimes I'm alone,
Smothered by everyone,
always so alone.
Drowning in love,
So alone,
Strangled by thier voices,
Alone.
Jun 2023 · 63
Noble bones.
Maniacal Escape Jun 2023
Invincibility has been dispensed,
To a floundering tattered caped hero.
As he dashes about, crunching under his own hype.
Never injured. Always there. Never wanted.
Never needed. Always square. Never useful.
Invincible to a fault.
Destroying cities to preserve a postcard.
That was never ever there.
Jun 2023 · 65
Midnight carrots
Maniacal Escape Jun 2023
Will someone save the crocodile?
Please, help help help help.
The puppy need's throwing into the water,
It's freezing in here. These blankets are stifling.
In my canoe of warm hot panic.
**** the bed. I've got paint stuck in my nails.
Topsy turvy. I'm the mumble bee and this is my garden.
May 2023 · 96
Fleet Street
Maniacal Escape May 2023
They say that life is fleeting,
I wish mine would fleet right off.
Loved ones say 'you can't mean that'
I say fleet them all.
Fleet you, your mum, your whole **** family,
Fleet the fleeting dog.
Fleet this world that I live in,
This fleetless fleeting pit.

'are you finished?' loved ones kindly protest.
'No I'm fleeting not!'
Fleet you all, and please kindly
Let me fleet to memory.
May 2023 · 100
Morning glory.
Maniacal Escape May 2023
The sun cleaved into his eyelids.
He stuttered into life.
Showered with regret and shame
He toweled himself down.
He stared into the mirror.
And readied his venom,
To spit again.
May 2023 · 94
Voicemail
Maniacal Escape May 2023
Hello?
Are you there? I've been thinking about things.
About what you said.
Did you mean it?
What you said?
It was nasty.
Horrid.
I'll speak to you tomorrow.
Maniacal Escape May 2023
His rotten sleeves waft in the wind
Sleepily staining the air
He swirls in his stench
Flouncing in stink
Hatefully spinning his song.

Wildly turning
His zombie breakdown
Bellowing a gutteral noise

He spins till he bleeds
Staining the earth.
The onlookers gawp at the show.

The circle slows down
His pulverised ankles
Can no longer keep up the dance.

He slumps in a puddle
A grave of his making
A corpse
A posterity curse.
May 2023 · 133
The Monster bath.
Maniacal Escape May 2023
Crying into the bath
It soaks its sponge.
The pink lather writhes in its fingers.

Bleeding from the wrists
It dabs tentatively.
The sponge adds red to pink

It soaks the sponge again,
In the vat of redder bubbles.
The copper scent claws up its nose.

Its arms loose grip
Of the cleansing sponge
Its mind fades red to black.
May 2023 · 79
Cheese.
Maniacal Escape May 2023
Insanity slipping through
the cracks in a chapped lip grin.
Its all ok
It was never ok.
It will never ever be ok.

Just say cheese.
May 2023 · 61
Echo chamber
Maniacal Escape May 2023
Are you not happy?
All alone?
This is what you wanted?
All along?

Deafened by silence.
All alone.
Burned all his bridges.
On his way home.
Apr 2023 · 223
Soldier
Maniacal Escape Apr 2023
Calamity up the nostrils
In tidy little lines.
Chaos behind the eyes
In sly uneven smiles.
Apr 2023 · 94
Green bottles
Maniacal Escape Apr 2023
Clink of glass on glass
Life blood pouring forth
Cold and sour
Slick and good
The haze will claim us soon
Apr 2023 · 114
Salvation
Maniacal Escape Apr 2023
Heartbeat clipping at his brain
He lies in his puddle of misery
Breath absent
Feelings dull
A smile rips across his face.
Apr 2023 · 106
Deliverance
Maniacal Escape Apr 2023
Stupor putrefies.
Knees wobble and hands prostrate.
Spirit slows its breathing.
Beholden to the madness
Laity massed around.
Sip. Sip. Drip. Drip.
Pray the sun doesn't rise tomorrow.
Apr 2023 · 94
Bag Gabriel. Bad Gabriel.
Maniacal Escape Apr 2023
The finger seeps from the clouds,
caressing the corners of his mind.
His eyes widen at the horror.
Pulse fast, hands cold.
Decision final.
Go again.
Apr 2023 · 114
The kings feast
Maniacal Escape Apr 2023
Hungry are the hands that claw out the brain,
In a fit of absent envy for the thrill of yesterday,
Slickened in blood and wine as it congeals around the mouth,
It pours into the toilet, a buffet consumed, destroyed.
Apr 2023 · 119
Pie crumbs.
Maniacal Escape Apr 2023
Crust around the edges
Of a molten black blancmange.
Sealing in the flavour.
A magnificent masterpiece.
Apr 2023 · 84
Recipe
Maniacal Escape Apr 2023
He pushes at his straight lines,
It's heaven in there,
Whole and pure and white,
It's wholesome.
It's tingling and tantalising.
Add one can for flavour.
My god just let me sleep.
Forever.
Jan 2023 · 199
Nursery rhymes
Maniacal Escape Jan 2023
Under a veil of terror,
It wipes its lips,
It's kiss a kindness,
A nightmare for small children.
Nov 2022 · 111
Swan dive
Maniacal Escape Nov 2022
How deep.
Does.
The Satan Pit.
Go.
Nov 2022 · 246
Zombie sunrise
Maniacal Escape Nov 2022
We're still alive, just,
Where do we go from here?
Above the water the salvo in my lungs.
Still alive.
Still thought's in my mind
Still poison through my veins.
Still shallow breathing,
Still shallow heartbeat.
Where do we go from here?
Drowning in the blood pool,
Explosions fill my mind.
Tendrils tell of warning signs
Can we hold them all,
Cuddling soothsaying doom.
Lets live and let go.
Oct 2022 · 216
Bitter goodbye
Maniacal Escape Oct 2022
You call yourself a monster,
But your not.
You creep in the dark,
Hello with the the chocolate.
Sweetness in pantomime,
Make me believe,
Forever a story,
Make me a slave
You called yourself a monster.
But you're not.
I weep for everything I got,
And watch you as you rot.
Oct 2022 · 82
Peeping
Maniacal Escape Oct 2022
Role play,
Foul play,
Masks hang on the ground today.
Tired eyes,
Pretty lies,
Silhouettes in bloom today.
Sep 2022 · 94
Peekaboo
Maniacal Escape Sep 2022
So forlorn,
You hide behind smiles.
So bitter,
Your sheathe your spittle, smile.
Only you know what this madness is, doubt
You'd ever know if those words were cried out,
I'd die a thousand times you'd only smile,
I've died a thousand times and you stayed quiet.
Sep 2022 · 193
Gouged.
Maniacal Escape Sep 2022
Will anyone ever see,
The loneliness behind,
These callous, hateful, hollow, spiteful,
Lonely eyes of mine.
Sep 2022 · 92
Cuddle
Maniacal Escape Sep 2022
Holding, close to you tonight.
So cold, we shiver. Our minds
Beg closeness, but know only fight,
Our dark words twisting the light.
Aug 2022 · 93
New endings
Maniacal Escape Aug 2022
Beholden
I am begun.
Halted by the myth,
Its peace, a mist, an avalanche.
An ember, flickering in a babies eye.
Beholden. Afowl. Anew.
A ghost.
Aug 2022 · 256
Dawn is waiting
Maniacal Escape Aug 2022
Rattling eyes,
Secrets and lies,
Pray the sun is blind tomorrow.
Aug 2022 · 112
Empty home
Maniacal Escape Aug 2022
Calling from our home,
Ghosts are spooking over,
Hands holding the cold.
Our exorcist gazebo.

Strawberries and cream,
Mouth is chewing toenails.
Bucket full of smoke.
Smoke alarms enabled.

Disaster will unfold,
Loneliness without me.
Calling you from home,
Calling home without me.
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