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Dear diabolic debutante / Spawn of the unfathomable abyss of blackness / Daughter of dreadful dead desire / Black-shrouded sinister sister of celestial gloom before whose imperious gaze the heavens fall silent / Whip-lash girl-child of the graves whose pallid visage kindles the myriad infernal fires / Autocratic vampiress of lunar doom whose winding-cloth enfolds the thousand horrors of blood-drenched nightmare / Thou that wanderest the cypress-crested hills of funereal necropolises / Whose icy glance cracks the ungraven tombstones of utter desolation / Empress of night and madness / Who stalks the locked and shadowed hallways of unhallowed thought / Whose burial-boat glides the still waters over Lethe’s silent depths to the unglimpsed isle of eternal mourning / Whose parapets tower above the fiefdoms of quotidian banality / Whose flying buttresses overlook the Stygian waters of the forgotten drowned denizens of damnation / Whose unshackled dungeons open to worlds of regal splendor / Whose spires pierce dark skies where oblivion buries the ruined cities of revelry under the drifting clouds of leaden time / Oh maiden of melancholic alchemy whose petrified passions transmute base metal into pure gold… May the gibbous moon of equinox shine its baleful eye upon you; may you tread in sacramental calm the winding starlit paths of somnolent cemeteries; may my unmixed metaphors unveil in delirium their parabolic mysteries before the smoldering altar of your uninterpretable allegory; may the favor of your scorn forever lay me out, embalmed, undead, on the cold stone of merciless reality. Behold: in cryptic script of spectral apparition, in tracery of coded illumination, amidst the dawning rays of torment I write thine unknown name on the threshold of daylight. And from within the mortared wall of self I speak forth from my sepulcher the Sibylline utterance, unsought, unheard, undreamt: JUST WANTED TO SAY ‘HI’ !
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Sep 10, 2015
Sep 10, 2015 at 9:15 PM UTC
Ω Gothic Postcard Ω
Dear diabolic debutante / Spawn of the unfathomable abyss of blackness / Daughter of dreadful dead desire / Black-shrouded sinister sister of celestial gloom before whose imperious gaze the heavens fall silent / Whip-lash girl-child of the graves whose pallid visage kindles the myriad infernal fires / Autocratic vampiress of lunar doom whose winding-cloth enfolds the thousand horrors of blood-drenched nightmare / Thou that wanderest the cypress-crested hills of funereal necropolises / Whose icy glance cracks the ungraven tombstones of utter desolation / Empress of night and madness / Who stalks the locked and shadowed hallways of unhallowed thought / Whose burial-boat glides the still waters over Lethe’s silent depths to the unglimpsed isle of eternal mourning / Whose parapets tower above the fiefdoms of quotidian banality / Whose flying buttresses overlook the Stygian waters of the forgotten drowned denizens of damnation / Whose unshackled dungeons open to worlds of regal splendor / Whose spires pierce dark skies where oblivion buries the ruined cities of revelry under the drifting clouds of leaden time / Oh maiden of melancholic alchemy whose petrified passions transmute base metal into pure gold… May the gibbous moon of equinox shine its baleful eye upon you; may you tread in sacramental calm the winding starlit paths of somnolent cemeteries; may my unmixed metaphors unveil in delirium their parabolic mysteries before the smoldering altar of your uninterpretable allegory; may the favor of your scorn forever lay me out, embalmed, undead, on the cold stone of merciless reality. Behold: in cryptic script of spectral apparition, in tracery of coded illumination, amidst the dawning rays of torment I write thine unknown name on the threshold of daylight. And from within the mortared wall of self I speak forth from my sepulcher the Sibylline utterance, unsought, unheard, undreamt: JUST WANTED TO SAY ‘HI’ !
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pretty pearl anklet adorning your foot tiara crown princess ***** cow all dressed up in a dark red cherry sequined come **** me dress black lacquered nails body beautiful prepped for ordeal by gang bang and pretty girl strangle torture blood **** wiggle wiggle **** pink aglow glistening hive your mouth piece bilingual fucky and baby talk all manicured and bejeweled glitter and tears ***** food inch worm lover little bludgeon your excited for a bed of nails what a luxury legs spread wide ***** drool melt your scent a silk **** cocktail in thick puce stained pink milk pom poms ****** beyond tabulation come sweet cow its time for slaughter down on your haunches you look up thrilled dark dreams do come true i love you like the bog loves bones embalmed in spice
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Dec 23, 2016
Dec 23, 2016 at 10:20 AM UTC
***** Princess...Ero ****
The engine is killing the track, the track is silver, It stretches into the distance. It will be eaten nevertheless. Its running is useless. At nightfall there is the beauty of drowned fields, Dawn gilds the farmers like pigs, Swaying slightly in their thick suits, White towers of Smithfield ahead, Fat haunches and blood on their minds. There is no mercy in the glitter of cleavers, The butcher's guillotine that whispers: 'How's this, how's this?' In the bowl the hare is aborted, Its baby head out of the way, embalmed in spice, Flayed of fur and humanity. Let us eat it like Plato's afterbirth, Let us eat it like Christ. These are the people that were important ---- Their round eyes, their teeth, their grimaces On a stick that rattles and clicks, a counterfeit snake. Shall the hood of the cobra appall me ---- The loneliness of its eye, the eye of the mountains Through which the sky eternally threads itself? The world is blood-hot and personal Dawn says, with its blood-flush. There is no terminus, only suitcases Out of which the same self unfolds like a suit Bald and shiny, with pockets of wishes, Notions and tickets, short circuits and folding mirrors. I am mad, calls the spider, waving its many arms. And in truth it is terrible, Multiplied in the eyes of the flies. They buzz like blue children In nets of the infinite, Roped in at the end by the one Death with its many sticks.
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Totem
Far away in ancient Jerusalem Stood a garden, long, long ago Home to giant oaks and figs And plants and shrubs of every kind. On every season, from time to time Merrily they would burst into bloom Filling the air with fragrance sweet And fuelling the hearts with joy and cheer. Amid the riot of flashing shades Where Poppies and Pansies held their heads In a corner, there a Lily stood, Sans scent and sans grandeur. A poor loner never once noticed Nor skilled to steal the show, Those, brilliant in shade and shape With contempt openly quipped ‘It’s such a shame She grows among us With such pallid shade And nothing to rave’, ‘Lilies are such lazy lot Giving only seasonal blooms’ Rang aloud their haughty comments Rashly blurted out and blunt The poor Lily wilted in shame Wishing she had never been born. Late that evening, through the garden Into the newly dug up grave A band of people came with lights Bearing someone cut and scathed. With blood oozing, drop by drop From wounds, left by piercing nails The body, carefully wrapped in linen Was the body of Jesus - Son of God The one who bore the sins of the world And courted the most accursed of deaths. The body embalmed was laid inside And sealed with a giant block of stone Soldiers posted to guard the tomb And every vigil so prudently kept. Early by dawn, three days hence While it was still very dark From inside the tomb had come Rumbling sounds and a blinding light. Flowers en masse blinked their eyes Beheld a man, gently walking out The wounds still fresh on his palm And the linen that swaddled, lying behind. As they watched this queer sight In awful amazement, they did see A host of Lilies, white as snow Far more beautiful than any of them Bowing their heads in reverential glee And singing Hosanna to the Lord of Life. All the flora in silent shock Sighted from whence the Lilies came They sprang unforeseen in those spots Where drops of blood from his body fell Then onwards, without fail April sees the grandeur and grace, Of snowy lilies - those delicate blooms Sprouting suddenly from the crust of the Earth Joggling their heads in whiffing breeze, And giving delight to all who behold.
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Mar 31, 2018
Mar 31, 2018 at 1:00 PM UTC
Blood Blossomed
Far away in ancient Jerusalem Stood a garden, long, long ago Home to giant oaks and figs And plants and shrubs of every kind. On every season, from time to time Merrily they would burst into bloom Filling the air with fragrance sweet And fuelling the hearts with joy and cheer. Amid the riot of flashing shades Where Poppies and Pansies held their heads In a corner, there a Lily stood, Sans scent and sans grandeur. A poor loner never once noticed Nor skilled to steal the show, Those, brilliant in shade and shape With contempt openly quipped ‘It’s such a shame She grows among us With such pallid shade And nothing to rave’, ‘Lilies are such lazy lot Giving only seasonal blooms’ Rang aloud their haughty comments Rashly blurted out and blunt The poor Lily wilted in shame Wishing she had never been born. Late that evening, through the garden Into the newly dug up grave A band of people came with lights Bearing someone cut and scathed. With blood oozing, drop by drop From wounds, left by piercing nails The body, carefully wrapped in linen Was the body of Jesus - Son of God The one who bore the sins of the world And courted the most accursed of deaths. The body embalmed was laid inside And sealed with a giant block of stone Soldiers posted to guard the tomb And every vigil so prudently kept. Early by dawn, three days hence While it was still very dark From inside the tomb had come Rumbling sounds and a blinding light. Flowers en masse blinked their eyes Beheld a man, gently walking out The wounds still fresh on his palm And the linen that swaddled, lying behind. As they watched this queer sight In awful amazement, they did see A host of Lilies, white as snow Far more beautiful than any of them Bowing their heads in reverential glee And singing Hosanna to the Lord of Life. All the flora in silent shock Sighted from whence the Lilies came They sprang unforeseen in those spots Where drops of blood from his body fell Then onwards, without fail April sees the grandeur and grace, Of snowy lilies - those delicate blooms Sprouting suddenly from the crust of the Earth Joggling their heads in whiffing breeze, And giving delight to all who behold.
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So much have I forgotten in ten years, So much in ten brief years! I have forgot What time the purple apples come to juice, And what month brings the shy forget-me-not. I have forgot the special, startling season Of the pimento's flowering and fruiting; What time of year the ground doves brown the fields And fill the noonday with their curious fluting. I have forgotten much, but still remember The poinsettia's red, blood-red in warm December. I still recall the honey-fever grass, But cannot recollect the high days when We rooted them out of the ping-wing path To stop the mad bees in the rabbit pen. I often try to think in what sweet month The languid painted ladies used to dapple The yellow by-road mazing from the main, Sweet with the golden threads of the rose-apple. I have forgotten--strange--but quite remember The poinsettia's red, blood-red in warm December. What weeks, what months, what time of the mild year We cheated school to have our fling at tops? What days our wine-thrilled bodies pulsed with joy Feasting upon blackberries in the copse? Oh some I know! I have embalmed the days, Even the sacred moments when we played, All innocent of passion, uncorrupt, At noon and evening in the flame-heart's shade. We were so happy, happy, I remember, Beneath the poinsettia's red in warm December.
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Flame-Heart
After my mother died, my room was filled with roses.  When the flowers died, my room was filled with their sweet, rotten stench for weeks on end; it sunk into my pores and into my DNA and years later, I still smell like dead roses.                                                 My sister confuses this smell with dead lilies. A bouquet of red roses was placed atop my mother’s coffin as it lowered six feet down into the earth.  After the roses died, I wonder if my mother could smell them like I did?  I wonder if she still smells them, or, more likely, how long it took for the roses to disintegrate into dust like her?   We don’t talk about the body after death because we don’t like to be reminded of how vulnerable we really are. In high school, a boy asked me to prom using roses and lilies that were all different shades of reds and oranges and yellows like fire.  Lilies like funerals and tombstones and formaldehyde. I don’t think he meant to remind me of death.  I don’t think his intention was to place me in a casket similar to my mother’s with its pink padded walls.  I don’t think he realized that’s where I went when I saw his basement covered in bouquets of hellfire.  I think he meant the roses to be romantic, but I looked at them and saw my mother’s putrefying face, saw her intestines eaten away by savage bacteria and bugs, saw her eyelids drying out and peeling back like black and dead and withered lily petals.  Embalming does not prevent decomposition, only prolongs it.  I have embalmed my mother's memory in the shape of a teal notebook.  I cannot tell if it has                                                                        begun to decay or not.
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May 24, 2016
May 24, 2016 at 2:31 PM UTC
Dead Bodies and Dead Flowers Smell Pretty Much The Same (No One Can Escape Complete Decomposition)
After my mother died, my room was filled with roses.  When the flowers died, my room was filled with their sweet, rotten stench for weeks on end; it sunk into my pores and into my DNA and years later, I still smell like dead roses.                                                 My sister confuses this smell with dead lilies. A bouquet of red roses was placed atop my mother’s coffin as it lowered six feet down into the earth.  After the roses died, I wonder if my mother could smell them like I did?  I wonder if she still smells them, or, more likely, how long it took for the roses to disintegrate into dust like her?   We don’t talk about the body after death because we don’t like to be reminded of how vulnerable we really are. In high school, a boy asked me to prom using roses and lilies that were all different shades of reds and oranges and yellows like fire.  Lilies like funerals and tombstones and formaldehyde. I don’t think he meant to remind me of death.  I don’t think his intention was to place me in a casket similar to my mother’s with its pink padded walls.  I don’t think he realized that’s where I went when I saw his basement covered in bouquets of hellfire.  I think he meant the roses to be romantic, but I looked at them and saw my mother’s putrefying face, saw her intestines eaten away by savage bacteria and bugs, saw her eyelids drying out and peeling back like black and dead and withered lily petals.  Embalming does not prevent decomposition, only prolongs it.  I have embalmed my mother's memory in the shape of a teal notebook.  I cannot tell if it has                                                                        begun to decay or not.
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Picture a late afternoon iridescent honey-yellow: The glance she knows is seen her cool hand placed in yours your stripped shirt she rips, her mouthing, “You’re it!”, hiding, revealing herself stripped, her finger tipped shh, the brush of ******* surrender and assent. She'll rise with a rustle of desiccated pines, needles will fall from her back, she'll crumple a cigarette pack, humming a vacant lament, fingers caressing a fossil flea embalmed in a dangling pendant. Copyright © 2003 Gary Brocks
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Aug 27, 2018
Aug 27, 2018 at 6:45 PM UTC
AMBER'S FAREWELL SOLILOQUY IN MIME
It is snowing and death bugs me as stubborn as insomnia. The fierce bubbles of chalk, the little white lesions settle on the street outside. It is snowing and the ninety year old woman who was combing out her long white wraith hair is gone, embalmed even now, even tonight her arms are smooth muskets at her side and nothing issues from her but her last word - "Oh." Surprised by death. It is snowing. Paper spots are falling from the punch. Hello? Mrs. Death is here! She suffers according to the digits of my hate. I hear the filaments of alabaster. I would lie down with them and lift my madness off like a wig. I would lie outside in a room of wool and let the snow cover me. Paris white or flake white or argentine, all in the washbasin of my mouth, calling, "Oh." I am empty. I am witless. Death is here. There is no other settlement. Snow! See the mark, the pock, the pock! Meanwhile you pour tea with your handsome gentle hands. Then you deliberately take your forefinger and point it at my temple, saying, "You suicide ***** I'd like to take a corkscrew and ***** out all your brains and you'd never be back ever." And I close my eyes over the steaming tea and see God opening His teeth. "Oh." He says. I see the child in me writing, "Oh." Oh, my dear, not why.
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Oh
The smell of swiss fondue a chocolate fountain moist strawberries angel food cake. The smell of brunch buffet apple turnovers honey sliced ham bacon and eggs. The smell of exhaust as we walk to the chapel up Oliver Street. The smell of flowers rainbowed daises heart shaped lilies a single red rose on the broach of your six year old brother. The smell of family friends neighbors. The smell of your six year old sister beautiful Easter dress sky blue ribbons silk bonnet blonde hair smooth skin embalmed because leukemia doesn't smell. Today we will all believe in God or pretend at least for you, her sister, her mother, her father, her twin brother, and for Ruthie, her chest buried in tear soaked flowers in a four foot casket.
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Oct 4, 2010
Oct 4, 2010 at 9:23 PM UTC
Kind of Like Leslie Burke
Mao’s on the wall. Mao’s on the cat, Mao’s the cat, And Mao’s on the truck. Mao’s tucked text. Mao’s still the cat Mao’s on the hat; And Mao’s rendered stencil. Mao draped in red, Mao embalmed vacuum, Mao smiling dirt And Mao in slaughter; The good, the bad, The, “godly,” great The ’89 slaughtered, ugly, And as putrid as the scholars Being spat upon. So Mao’s tempered glass And Mao’s tempered solemn, Surrounded a spectacle, When I, Mao and I, Author and other, other and Away, gaze eye-to-eye with, “Before.” His are closed, Mine, unblinking. I think of heroes, I, “tinker,” butchers, And ponder, “Just,” and to the right of, Right,” what is, “right?” Would he have been? Would she have been? Would I have been? “Right?” Just what the hell is,” right?”
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Aug 3, 2015
Aug 3, 2015 at 9:12 AM UTC
"Mao's" on the wall
A man may usually be known by the books he reads as well as by the company he keeps; for there is a companionship of books as well as of men; and one should always live in the best company, whether it be of books or of men. A good book may be among the best of friends. It is the same today that it always was, and it will never change. It is the most patient and cheerful of companions. It does not turn its back upon us in times of adversity or distress. It always receives us with the same kindness; amusing and instructing us in youth, and comforting and consoling us in age. Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book just as two persons sometimes discover a friend by the admiration which both entertain for a third. There is an old proverb, ‘Love me, love my dog.” But there is more wisdom in this:” Love me, love my book.” The book is a truer and higher bond of union. Men can think, feel, and sympathize with each other through their favorite author. They live in him together, and he in them. A good book is often the best urn of a life enshrining the best that life could think out; for the world of a man’s life is, for the most part, but the world of his thoughts. Thus the best books are treasuries of good words, the golden thoughts, which, remembered and cherished, become our constant companions and comforters. Books possess an essence of immortality. They are by far the most lasting products of human effort. Temples and statues decay, but books survive. Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh today as when they first passed through their author’s minds, ages ago. What was then said and thought still speaks to us as vividly as ever from the printed page. The only effect of time have been to sift out the bad products; for nothing in literature can long survive e but what is really good. Books introduce us into the best society; they bring us into the presence of the greatest minds that have ever lived. We hear what they said and did; we see the as if they were really alive; we sympathize with them, enjoy with them, grieve with them; their experience becomes ours, and we feel as if we were in a measure actors with them in the scenes which they describe. The great and good do not die, even in this world. Embalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect to which on still listens.
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Aug 20, 2013
Aug 20, 2013 at 2:20 AM UTC
Companionship of Books
A man may usually be known by the books he reads as well as by the company he keeps; for there is a companionship of books as well as of men; and one should always live in the best company, whether it be of books or of men. A good book may be among the best of friends. It is the same today that it always was, and it will never change. It is the most patient and cheerful of companions. It does not turn its back upon us in times of adversity or distress. It always receives us with the same kindness; amusing and instructing us in youth, and comforting and consoling us in age. Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book just as two persons sometimes discover a friend by the admiration which both entertain for a third. There is an old proverb, ‘Love me, love my dog.” But there is more wisdom in this:” Love me, love my book.” The book is a truer and higher bond of union. Men can think, feel, and sympathize with each other through their favorite author. They live in him together, and he in them. A good book is often the best urn of a life enshrining the best that life could think out; for the world of a man’s life is, for the most part, but the world of his thoughts. Thus the best books are treasuries of good words, the golden thoughts, which, remembered and cherished, become our constant companions and comforters. Books possess an essence of immortality. They are by far the most lasting products of human effort. Temples and statues decay, but books survive. Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh today as when they first passed through their author’s minds, ages ago. What was then said and thought still speaks to us as vividly as ever from the printed page. The only effect of time have been to sift out the bad products; for nothing in literature can long survive e but what is really good. Books introduce us into the best society; they bring us into the presence of the greatest minds that have ever lived. We hear what they said and did; we see the as if they were really alive; we sympathize with them, enjoy with them, grieve with them; their experience becomes ours, and we feel as if we were in a measure actors with them in the scenes which they describe. The great and good do not die, even in this world. Embalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect to which on still listens.
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Pompeii stood proud near Naples. Close to Herculaneum. When in August of AD 79. Volcano magnificent erupted. Without nonchalance. A buried city born. Complete with frescoes of erotica. Were subject to ancient censorship. City modern with flowing water. Trendy port. Gymnasium. Modernist by all accounts. Population 20 000. Mostly perished in brimstone's evacuation. From the deepest depths of hell. Suffocated nearly all. Asphyxiated on vile fumes. Eruption cataclysmic. City buried far underground. By written description. 'Tis believed that hell on earth unleashed. The day following magical celebrations. Worshiping Vulcanalia the Roman God of Fire. Ironic tragedy procured. Few survived the tragedy. Those that did ran free Anarchy, starvation. Mainly petty larceny. Landscape near destroyed. Pliny the Younger wrote in a letter. Vivid description of images seen as Pliny the Elder tried to rescue a few. Felt perhaps had a duty to do. Was admiral proud of the Roman fleet. His life taken in forfeit as citizens from the ash world perished. Pax Romana followed tragedy. Dealt such a wicked card. Embalmed in ash citizens lay. Locked forever on the spot as they ran away! By ladylivvi1 © 2013 ladylivvi1 (All rights reserved)
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Sep 22, 2013
Sep 22, 2013 at 6:35 AM UTC
Death of Pompeii !!
Dozing on a hammock Strung between two towering palms With the sky above- color washed in turquoise blue and the waters below reflecting that heavenly hue, you came to me sailing in a dream like the strains of a symphony causing endless vibrations in my solitary heart you showed up all too sudden like a rainbow on my vacant sky after a cloud burst of cloistered grief to blaze it with iridescent shades Your smile embalmed my bruised spirit with the coolness of a  summer drizzle falling, like manna over starved Israelites in their arduous odyssey through blistering sands Your passionate breath, spewed on my face bore the scent of opening buds in the mazy tangle of wild creepers growing dense in nearby woods. Your amorous whispers fell in my ears with the sweetness of the melody from Krishna’s flute with Radha near ,love sick her lips curled in an immaculate smile. Your soft footsteps like the jingle of a court dancer echoed in the silence of my soul with a hundred evocations As the jingles came nearer in synchronizing rhythm I held out my arms to clasp you in tight embrace and reel you in frenzied jig But you vanished, vanished, with the swiftness of bubbles rising and breaking in a beer glass, leaving me to my desolate zone The sky overhead had changed into another shade Still I lay in mid air, with my eyes sealed tight to re-live that dream once again!
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Aug 30, 2016
Aug 30, 2016 at 9:00 AM UTC
A Fantasy Come Alive
Another day, another hour spent looking at cadavers, Surprisingly fun, and suspiciously fresh bodies- "Hey Mrs. Johnson, what do you think John did with his life?" She gave me a look that didn't seem too pleased at my inquisition. Or the fact that I named our body John. Morbidly, I thought she looked at me like a zombie would look at our friend John like a cold cut subway sandwich, Although I figured if I were a zombie, I'd prefer my meat fresh, and not embalmed with formaldehydes and ethanol. "That thought seems inappropriate and not respectful of the medical sacrifice 'john' made " she said dripping with in my opinion too much sarcasm for me to NOT respond too. "Well, John is dead, I don't think he's getting offended anytime soon," I retorted. Her smile contorted like the prudish smile John offered me in support. "I'm not worried about offending the corpse as much as I am the ghost, and this Lab will NOT be haunted under my watch" (Her pride in her wit inflated much like Johns body inflated with decomposition and bowel gases.) I apologized internally for the comment and action I was about to make- "This medical dictatorship has to collapse sooner or later- and I still want an answer too my question" And with that, I took the nearest scalpel to his bloated stomach, and watched in disgust and glee as everyone else ran for cover amongst the ****** of stomach contents and Johns final retribution in death. I got an A+ in that class.
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Apr 5, 2021
Apr 5, 2021 at 3:25 PM UTC
Medical dictatorship
The wind is beautiful this morning Awesome and soothing before my body relaxing like the sights of the water lilies embalmed with nature's aura marinaded in the helms of the valley defiling the sanctuary of my mind I let this beauty envelope my very being as I hang on to the very last straw grasping for air like a desperate baby clutching on to a candy Holding on to the very notes from unsung pipes gliding through the very surface of the sun dancing to the beats of these symphony this orchestra, peace for my troubled heart beauty for my broken soul I let myself swim in the parfum inhaling every essence as I watch the wonders heal my soul I beheld the tranquil touch my heart yearned for as I let peace conquer my anxiety
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Feb 6, 2022
Feb 6, 2022 at 3:50 PM UTC
Serendipity
I. Wreathed in myrtle, my sword I’ll conceal, Like those champions devoted and brave, When they plunged in the tyrant their steel, And to Athens deliverance gave. II. Beloved heroes! your deathless souls roam In the joy breathing isles of the blest; Where the mighty of old have their home— Where Achilles and Diomed rest. III. In fresh myrtle my blade I’ll entwine, Like Harmodius, the gallant and good, When he made at the tutelar shrine A libation of Tyranny’s blood. IV. Ye deliverers of Athens from shame! Ye avengers of Liberty’s wrongs! Endless ages shall cherish your fame, Embalmed in their echoing songs!
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Hymn To Aristogeiton And Harmodius
You will be argonaut one more of the supernumerary trodding upon the cindered ones come before you limbs wooden and somite encircling a moon tumescent and blue in permafrost garrote on constellations edge tottering over synapse mocking like a mime on highwire your guilt lupine in its longing sawtooth timberline in vivisect night down promontory to frozen wave the broken spoke of your step on sleetslick carapace past the preterit embalmed hide of the world into the silent millstone berserk to return emptyhanded and changed
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Nov 9, 2012
Nov 9, 2012 at 2:36 AM UTC
Seeking Enkidu
I closed my eyelids. a unique space-time I've created. A new world with I                and you, and in it we're us; pseudo pagans                adjust in my multiverse of could-have-been's wannabe's and forget-me-not's, there's a million wormholes back thru it's a glittering new world where we're happy forever                (embalmed) present-perfect continuity we'll never need to question or worry                of it because it'll be ours to [edit] a spiritual instagram. sorry for the link. I'm a believer. our story is brick-bound & pyramidal it's worthy of true realness I'll never let that faith fade. and all I have to do is stay asleep seal myself, artery by nerve, in this bed. eyes closed but moving underneath                (forever) and here I'll lay; 1,000 years on entirely petrified. a fossil of trust. everything/everyone I had known - gone                forever. fleshy eyes, solid as stone now. Blissfully (always) unaware of their end. No matter the time, my (      ) still eternally & happily                in dream.
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Apr 29, 2014
Apr 29, 2014 at 8:21 PM UTC
In Dream
The Magical Date Last nite was a celebration! And before it all begun He held me by my hand so close We were off to leprechaun land! The naughty elf with his impish pranks His sinful teases and wanton ways His playful gestures, fractious delights He rushed me off to his wilful fays We found ourselves in a Keatsian bower In 'embalmed darkness', 'mong 'white hawthorns' It was fragrant with the jasmine veils That covered the roof of rosy thorns we laughed and sang old happy numbers we talked our hearts out gleefully After aeons of blue moon we'd finally met A magical date it had to be! And so when i looked up to his eyes It held mine in a purple gaze In a trice of a second he was off with me Speeding through the verduous maze Help! i cried but held on tight Our windswept hair, our amorous plight His fervour, vigor, force and power Was all i felt that wondrous night Elf or gnome, genie or sprite A naughty brownie or the nisse vampire Bogie, goblin, fairy, nymph He carried me through the forests dire... So just wen I can close my eyes Just when i feel im missing him He's there as he says hes there with me Off we go into the woodlands dim We dance a waltz, a salsa true A foxtrot, a ballet in embrace tight In white moonshine, in purple rain When dewdrops catch the morning light. And then again with every dawn The magic wanes, the elf resigns To mossy groves and sylvan lands And the elfin grottos of my mind.
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Dec 20, 2011
Dec 20, 2011 at 12:37 AM UTC
The magical date
The smoke stacks that line the waterfront be like giant joints puffing thoughts of her into air embalmed by hundreds of rainy days That slow burn, against the icy bay and the barges that carry their loads through them This corner of the world gets six hours of daylight, tops Greys seared by neon, smoke and clouds and fog produced as one continuous substance There's a pleasant blurryness here floating amid the buoys and the docked ferryboats, In the way the monorails glide above toward a 1960s dream of the space age through an Amazonian jungle of glass and cranes in harmony with the clouds sailing overhead Here is where you go to let off steam deferred, where you ride trains through a kind of dark that arrives early, stays up late as shadows wander across the gum covered walls of Post Alley like ghosts made of espresso mist freed from lit joints protruding from the skyline to a high beneath starless heaven Resting into the glow of that harbor against thoughts of her that cloud the view of the sea.
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Feb 19, 2019
Feb 19, 2019 at 4:33 PM UTC
Dark at 4:30pm
Somewhere in my brain, a black and white picture glitters a vain embalmed past. Come on, girl! Join the play, merry you must be, all's a drollery. Over the rainbow, you'll know, nothing waits! Come on, girl! Join the play, for the heights! Gritty playground, running coloured voices. Aside, she seats wishing that someone calls. Come on, girl! Others can notice you, yet, silly!, you hope they will see! Get off that uniform, stand up, reach out! Come on, girl! Spin and sing, dance it all-out!
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May 19, 2014
May 19, 2014 at 6:07 AM UTC
Compass
You kept me entombed in a coffin of thought Never free cockroaches of doubt crawled Around my chained thoughts. The nails rough on my mind, jaggedly etching oxidized stagnation of my embalmed understanding. Why would you keep me in the dark. I am solitary in this shallow wash of waning moments Could I just crawl in to this sea of disbelief and Drown slowly in my entombed darkened thoughts.
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Aug 31, 2015
Aug 31, 2015 at 6:04 AM UTC
In Darkness Where My Thoughts Were Kept
I dreampt of you again last night --- so sweet , it was a nightmare . an apparition of your hand embalmed in mine . "poofing" in the smoke of my reality come back to life . the way you looked at me so fond ; I can never forget . it brings the tears like a monsoon . the time going on and on ; post -traumatic . I age ten years in the span of two months . living ; learning . and I still love you . like pneumonia that never leaves ... there is always a risk of the sickness again . take caution . do I want to fall ill again ? the second time may come to pass --- my death would then be on your hands (yours are so lovely) . and I am so lonely ...
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Jul 5, 2013
Jul 5, 2013 at 6:27 PM UTC
the doctor prescribed me the wrong medication .
Heaven and hell twirl entwined like sea-moss Embalmed into an eternal possession, Hearts mark themselves deeply then bare to rot; You can undo love but never obsession.
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Jun 16, 2024
Jun 16, 2024 at 12:36 AM UTC
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