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*** with Grendel

With those acid wash jeans

With that full sleeve of twirling black ink

With the drapes of long hair

I thought that we could leave the xplosion-club

After the confection of colognes

After the South African red wine

After the pounding music all night

Something **** about

A statue that can move

It's eyes

Something **** about

A man that thinks

Openly

 

We took the subway back to my apartment

You picked up a pebble and tossed it

I was quieter now

Would I let him inside? I have to at this point it seems

A charming prince

is a charming prince

 

I open the door.

Nothing bad happens, as I expect

I am a little paranoid I don't know why

(The club flashes back)

The door closes without its usual creek,

And we're inside.

Me and the charmer; I wonder, was he once a frog?

I have a funny feeling that I think came from the wine

Am I trashed or

Does he have horns?

Slimy toadskin, red eyes, 1000 inches of claws

Suddenly

Are upon me, Oh my God!

I tell it to leave mE ALONE,

It doesn't listen to me.

 

Every time I try to slip out of it's grip

I slide into a claw

Gushing this stuff from the movies,

It covered the bed and then the floor,

It probably leaked out from under the apartment door.

 

My cellphone rings in my pants pocket

I can't reach it because by then this grendel thing had broken me

Into two legs, a torso, two arms

And a decapitated head

While it eats my right lung, my left hand tries to desperately crawl away

He pokes it with a great fork; no escaping crums

The awful amphibian finishes and leaves forever.

He's never coming back

A winner-and-loser kind of *** I guess.

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Written by
dev
Irish
Published
Mar 25, 2012
Lines·Words
48·304
Notes

I know that Grendel is typically a monster imagined as a hairy beast. But I wanted to name my morphing amphibian Grendel.

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