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a night not like others

By benafim

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A Night Not Like Others Evening is approaching, heavy clouds no stars tonight. A door slams shut the draft is unworldly. Switch on the table and try to chase the spooks away before they crowd your mind… If they will not be deterred light your house up till it is a shopping mall at Christmas time. Play music, dance and sing, don’t let them in they will only replace the sane with images of horror. Lumps of gore with eyes and ears, tiny fingers dripping blood accusing you of infanticide… And the spooks will laugh and laugh when you slowly drown in a bottle of booze. Alone you will be when spiders, with infants’ dead faces, from the ceiling come and your scream of mercy will go unheard…The slam you heard was God leaving by the back door. Written March 1st, 2002 © on Feb 28 2002 06:17 PM PST   0 • 10

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