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The Centipede Pit

I scrutinized the miserable wretch harnessed to the table

Polished my knuckle with his murk, malice, and fable

 

                             Placing a centipede on his stomach as it shuffled to his eye

Languidly impending horror as he begged me to die

 

                                I put pressure on his abdominal with the ball of my hand

Took a breath to my diluted lungs as the boy’s jawline ran

 

                          Tantalizing screams of dread, poor boy fastened on steel bed  

I protruded my hand deep and to his intestines, it fed

 

                                          My malignant clasp ripped and mangled as it went

Like the centipede too, itched and mangled as it went

 

                                 And as his entrails to, like sizeable centipedes they went

In a ****** stream of fluids crawling and sprawling as they went

 

I bound up with glee as my poor wretch lay be, and I swung him head-toe to a pit

Where billions of legs crawl, but human ones not at all, a realm where arthropods permit

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Feb 17, 2014
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