WEEK: Contenders: dead man vs Clutbuck CLOSED TBA

[dead man]

already

metastatic. whispers in a breathless vibrato
message in a bottle. shipwrecked with treasure to follow
nevermore. they slept silent, reassembled at dawn
building networks, signal cellular spawn, forever and onward
bloodletter scalpel the carnage. flesh break intestinal trauma
membranous monsters. tearing through our layers, wretched lasagna
terminal promise. caskets and roses. finger-snap and a moment
magma molten. fever sweat, night terrors, rapid mitosis
eyes open. let it soak. nucleic mutants who wait
biding time til it's already too late. booze and a steak
smoke our problems away. we all can relate. god, what a day
mother nature, pull the trigger, sing my zombies awake
jaundice and anxious. paper yellow skin a mountain of flakes
sloughing often. sputum nostril, dormant body decay
hospital gravesite. porous wormhole taking holiday pay
for targeted therapy and a bout of rosacea
charts and papers printed patient. arrows all indicated
they've awakened. crawling quietly through organ and vein
soil and rain. tar and nitrogen. hostile disease
carcinogen elixir mixing water and seed
gnarled tree, tombstone temple they've erected in secret
infective, ghastly specter, cult-like vessel for demons
to be free. nestled between my meat and spirit it seems
to never leave, let me sleep. unearthed their burials, easily
breaking through, breaking me. or who i was. nevermore.
every positive biopsy gives a devil his horns.





dm