Your grief and rage are layers of peeling paint pasting together the rotted boards of a ramshackle house and when those layers are scraped away the bat-filled building collapses into a massive sink hole which gives birth to a ravenous mouth crammed with rows of shark teeth that devours everything I consider mine. So the night is long. Luvgood Carp, Editor-in-Chief
Oh my! I definitely felt this one.
Fits so many situations/people that won’t let you walk away, because of their own tapeworm-like appetite.
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Thanks, Liz.
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Love the opening three lines. Great work!
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Thanks very much.
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The second mate kept telling us how
Wrong we were, and that
What we heard about him was wrong too.
He was a chapel man you see and every Sunday
He wore his hat and read the gospel aloud
To all who would listen. There was a cat
On that boat and she listened, curled on his bunk.
Until one day you wake up screaming
We left with the tide. Chug, chug, chug.
– C.Elwydd Abel Prentiss
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