Black madness seeping in,
Peeping head of darkest night.
No eyesight, right?
No mouth in sight!?
Perhaps, I'll slowly close my eyes
To keep the screaming in.

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What menacing stare it had,
Darkness 'cept the eyes.
Eyes as red as glowing coals,
Fingers stretched around two boles,
My heaving breath and sides.
And I can run no more.

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A severed wrist
Cannot be kissed
Her blood's a mangled stream.
Although, what bliss,
We'll never miss
Her animosity!

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A little more abnormal, see,
A little more of me, to see.
Hiding out and watching time,
High up in your tree.
I bet you'll never see.

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Always on time
For everything
Running late
For normal life.
So at 50,
I'm 35
And hoping Death's behind.

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The key lay glinting
At the bottom
Of a barrel-full of eels
Calamity!
Hold my feet
While I dive in,
Never mind the magnet!
We're doing this
The hard way!

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Snake-tongues
Lapping at muddy water
Baked suns
Times three...four.
We'll hide out in our hidey hole
Way down where the air is cold
Up for some air
Up for some warmth
And down when it scorches our skin.
Maybe we'll fry
Maybe we'll die
Perhaps again and again.

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Itty bitty warped feng-shui
Partly exposed to acrid air
A couple teaspoons here and there
What hurts?
What can it hurt?
All falls and no walls and no blood
That's just been drained from arterial walls
Splashed battery acide
All that remains.

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Imagine the after-life
Is crowded,
The here-after
Only allowing elbow room,
And I think
That's why some ghosts
Just won't stay quiet.

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I wasn't out of place at home,
But I stuck out like an awkward sore thumb
In school all knees and thunder thighs
Fitted jeans that rode too high.

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never have I felt so hollow
as clocking in and clocking out
to watch the tumbling of the second hand
and realize it's all for naught.
money here, money there
gone without a trace.
life has been erased.
wonder me with sorrow.

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Stuck in a dead end
Flirting with light's end
No peace with peace, friend.
All green will cease, fiend.
No roads without end, friend.
Endless, endless drudge again.
Again.

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I've been followed around
By a red-eyed devil.
His steps echo against walls
I've already stepped beyond.
I feel his heat against my back,
So I don't turn around.
If I turn around...
I'd have to run.

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Throughout this night
A notorious bad mood
Permeated the household
Until finally one blew their top,
Stopped out...
Disappeared.
She wasn't that hangry, was she?

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if you held a candle
to her teased hair,
it would be a far better show,
I'd wager.
she spit gum into mine last night.
it's only fair.

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if you carried a load
going 88 MPH,
backwards and exactly 9 lbs...
well then you'd fall and be the village idiot.
we don't pay you for flatlines.
we pay you to get the babes
alive.
one more mishap, and you're scorched.

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damn boys and their damn mixtapes.
she spun it round, clicked record,
and set it beside his cell.
his sobs made for a better soundtrack
than his music ever did.

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we're drowning in ectoplasm,
stuck in the middle of it
with barely a pocket of breath.
that is what it was like
after you shoved us
into that damn nebula, Jerold.
we hope you like it, now, too.

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most of the time
the only time a head is portable
is when it's attached to a body.
I'm sure no one will notice
this bloody sack I'm holding,
especially since
I came from the butcher's shop.
Mother would be so pleased.

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Emails to Grindstone's submitters just went out. Marc Tizura & I are thrilled by the number of submissions we got. We asked, & y'all saddled UP! It made for some tough choices, but boy howdy, this is gonna' be GOOD, y'all. A big Grindstone's yee-haw to all who've supported us!