_Keepers of my soul, harsh absentee landlords
_Illiterate judges with legs, the frog-bane's dread
_Love decapitates me, I stick to a meniscus of failure
_Let my hope die with my ant-farm.

_Molluscs scream a choir of angst gone rancid
_Evil giggles with the power of many hit-dice

_Worlds within wells of fey power and portent
_Itchy places, once patched, never scratched
_Tongues of desire lick a suffragete's blue socks
_Hands pull whisps of meaning from vertical thoughts.

_Jazzy Jeff never meant it to be this way
_Earnest effort, rewarded with a blunt instrument
_Lillies float and winter chills a new orb
_Lilac scents a Haiku writer's tear soaked ricepaper
_Your mother recites Monty Python.

_Briars of desolation choke a fragile intent
_Ears of corn, crude bludgeons, malicious bent
_Anger fuels a savage denial
_Nun feeding frenzy, dead children in a pile
_Solar flares never felt this alone.