Archive for November, 2024

Fiends and Fury

November 29, 2024 

We will find no comfort until the night melts away; until the fury of the night rots out its fire.
-Djuna Barnes, Watchman, What of the Night?

Get home before the sun goes down
This ain't no ordinary town
Cool your mind – keep out of sight
Don't bestir the doom of night 

Hairy hounds released from hell
Zombies under wicked spells
Fiends and fury from The Fall
Moloch Gorgon Satan Baal 

Tell-Tale Heart – The Witch of Coos
Now it's time to pay your dues
Spirits demons lunatics
I hope your house is made of bricks

Stay inside and lock the door
Don't look outside – don't ask wherefore
Calm your heart and clear your head
Keep a lantern by your bed

by Richard W. Bray

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this petty pace from day to day

November 20, 2024 

no not never darkness
empty ugly stupid 
laughing evil putrid 
nothing nowhere fear

falling filthy dingy ruin
senseless cracked crooked
smelly frigid fruitless
doomed dreary busted smear

cruel crappy murder
hateful burning blocked
hopeless sneering creepy
losing broken insincere

by Richard W. Bray

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Stuff that bores and clogs my pores

November 10, 2024 


Who I am
And where I am
And what I'm gonna do
It's the trail I gotta take
It's not about you

Taking time
To live my rhyme
And find what 
I can find

Ain't got time
For reading minds
And sniffing 
Fools' behinds 

Stuff that bores
And clogs my pores
I just let it be

Listening to my nightmares
To understand my dreams

by Richard W. Bray

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