ditto Doug.
On 27 February 2014 03:59, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Though I tend to lov e allusions to Lovecraft etc, I think Lawrence is
> right:
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> End with 'What do you think when you think of me?'
>
> Fitting nin these days of new laws etc...
>
> Doug
> On Feb 26, 2014, at 4:38 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
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> > I liked this tho i am not the ending works - well, for me. Consider
> ending
> > it at the second or third line of the third para? L
> >
> >
> >
> > On 25 February 2014 23:20, Kenneth Wolman <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> >> GORGING
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Always the same dream, a few nights a week
> >>
> >> broken only by the silence of mortification.
> >>
> >> Of your heart parboiled, broiled
> >>
> >> like a British breakfast kidney, cooked
> >>
> >> and on my plate. Utensils at the ready:
> >>
> >> a sharp blade, no, a switchblade,
> >>
> >> out-snapped, pinged against my thumb,
> >>
> >> even cutting into callus, ready for use.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> It is all about hatred. You know this.
> >>
> >> But whose? Does ours subsume mine for you
> >>
> >> and yours for me? Does it matter?
> >>
> >> It is perpetual, motion without air.
> >>
> >> It has always been there, pre-metastasized,
> >>
> >> waiting from the start of Eternity
> >>
> >> to explode into flowing life,
> >>
> >> wrapping itself around us both.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Ugly, yes. I cannot think of you
> >>
> >> without thoughts of evil dreams.
> >>
> >> What do you think when you think of me?
> >>
> >> Am I your Lovecraft monster,
> >>
> >> the soul-consumer who eats your heart
> >>
> >> as you ate mine? Do we share the same dream,
> >>
> >> unknowing? Do we live it in separate cells?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
>
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