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failing fright

how magnificently you spin

fiercest fury's

loathe some web

still come see through

your clever hangman's noose

as your true intent

tends to pale beneath such eerie dread

when the unleashed diver of your lethal

muse

too agilely nets his fervent murky find

like children harboring some fairy tale

excuse

simple are such humble creatures

of the water and prairie's lapping line

still a cauldron of mirthless bungle

cashes in on another's neatly slated death

a fleshy flawed pearl

which gags at its ghastily gapes in the

mouth of time

and time stands nearly sullen yet still

for the gentle mourning of the silently

bereft

just as

God never forgets

one violent indiscriminate hunger

preying upon the lesser fortune of a

smaller another

fulfilling one cold reality level of many

upon the greater infrastructure of the

global food chain

one mercurial myth's murder path

magic

which is far too commonly known under the

gruesome guise of the necessity for survival

we feed fiercely upon each other

as

this was

is to be

and shall always be

our path of choice

whether humane or otherwise

yet

saddest of all

most alternatives I'm so very sorry to say

are never cheap

so to the cow

the pig

the chicken

the lobster, fish and frog

can you ever forgive man for his

selfish carnage

vegetarians must live with the clearest

conscience of all

I think

with no innocent animal's blood smeared upon

their dinner's plate

as we feaster's of the consummate kill

must come stand to reason

one day with our generous supply of inlaid

guilt

with 'The Remorse Of True Tears'

I apologise.................

(Aug. 16, 1998)