Poetry

Chum Bucket

Under the Carnivore Moon’s light my tentacles develop, I morph orbular: Werefish with mulish teeth, tufts of eyelashes for fur.    I’m the dumbest idiot on Creature Street. All the mutants splash my cesspit with ectoplasm, say I’m non-phantasmagoric.    I’d kill everyone in heaven just to make you lonely.    I’m not touching you […]

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I Let in a Bug

I guide the housefly inside. Am purposeful, literal.             My first words: mother, what                  have you done!? (don’t you dare say dad’s dingle, I’m new). I hold my pet corpse’s hand: we’ve done      well, old friend, and we know family is an effort                to keep bills paid and pills taken; refurbish

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