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The Fifth Man

A pack of hyenas, we howl in a frenzy.

Set off by naught,

A twitter or flick and all is lost

To laughter in the night,

Engulfing us all.

Sides aching, my body keeps quaking

Free as a warbler, Screeching and Heaving

As the fire dies, I open my eyes

In a tent, we lay sprawled

Worship almighty Party Mix

Now ravenous lions, or kindergarten children

We claw and shove and dig into the loot

Faces full, stomachs pounding, eyes heavy,

Fingers sticky with snacky crumbs,

A sugary tantalizing coating.

Hounds we are, gluttonous fiends

Living for twenty dollars of sweetly goods

Bought from an otter.

All is forgotten as we sit down to feast

"Spare the jerky, we'll need it later!"

"You devil, its all gone!"

Oh well, no worries of food now

Sufficiently satiated we snuggle into sleeping sacks

Shadows play on the walls

Dancing as jubilantly as shadows may to the music we play

****** stories, crude jokes now met with sheepish sniggers

A fifth giggle is heard from our party of four

Unseen, yet someone is there

A screaming spirit, a lost loner,

A wily wizard, a carnivorous ******

A balefully babbling banshee,

A sambaing Spanish sandman,

A dopaminergic, diamond-eyed dragon?!

Dare we ask what he be

As his wisdom calmed our carousing

We journeyed through eternity

Visions of it all so overwhelming

Our minds explode

Great kaleidoscopal mortars on a warm eve in july

Visions of dank alleyways, bums and drums

Pastoral sights with floral delights

Emaciated emigrants, there faces so slum

Whimsical unicorns cavort through clouds

Young boys in green turned pincushions by hot flashing iron

Jovial faces devour whole hams by candlelight

Hopeless faces cry and starve by moonlight

Weary we are as the rooster caw-caws for dawn

Wet with dew and naked we slip out

Crazed and dazed we walk in a haze

To witness diurnal beginnings

Pink tinges and orange singes

Streaming above the horize

Time now to sleep

In the crystalline shimmering meadow

Short morning naps

To ease madness since midnight

Dreams foggily drift in and out

Sun's rays fry the flesh

As we awaken to sickening reality

Had it all been psychedlic delusions

Surely it'd just been us four

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Dec 24, 2009
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