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Alicat
Member Elite

since 1999-05-23

Posts 4094
Coastal Texas

0 posted 2000-10-30 10:13 PM

The steady 'plink' of dripping water
I still hear the echoes
Running through the service chase
Occasionally filled with scalding steam
The wall is slick and fetid
Pausing to wipe my hand on
My stained trouser leg

I have a secret place
Down here in subterranea
Where live the Moles and Finks
With their bottled demons
And rancid memories
Minds smelling of fear and tin

I must rest, must move on
Must
Must
Must lay my burden down
He's a little heavy
At present

But soon, ah soon
The steady 'plink' of dripping water
Will erode him down
Until his skin hands
Like so many sheets of muslin
Grey with colonies of spores

And whence comes the time
He no longer amuses
That dog shall be put down
And I will scour the cities
For another soul like mine

Alicat

If I were any more laid back, I'd be in a coma.

Christopher

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-02

Posts 8296
Purgatorial Incarceration

1 posted 2000-10-31 01:16 AM

deep sub-surface (haha - sorry) thoughts here Ali - very glad you're not really writing this as catharsis!!!

Alicat
Member Elite

since 1999-05-23

Posts 4094
Coastal Texas

2 posted 2000-10-31 08:57 AM

Heh...no lie, Chris, especially since the speaker is not refering to 'man's best friend' in this one...but someone more...bipedal.

Christopher

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-02

Posts 8296
Purgatorial Incarceration

3 posted 2000-10-31 12:34 PM

yeah - kinda gathered that Ali - LOL - not that "cruelty" to animals is a good thing.. but the subterranian shivers this gave me... LOL

Ron K. Fox
Senior Member

since 2000-10-24

Posts 925

4 posted 2000-10-31 06:59 PM

makes a great sci-fi kinda write...sort of a mole man hunchback of notre dam(sewer dam that is)
kinda creepy but definetly good.

Tossing words like wishful coins into the deep well of an open heart. R. fox

Isis
Member Ascendant

since 1999-09-06

Posts 6296
Sunny Queensland

5 posted 2000-10-31 11:03 PM

Some deformed sewer living creature in the sewers under america!!!! Why not? Great read hon..
Isis

*I believe every time you put your words to paper, you change. Each feeling is set free, and you may follow.....*
~Isis~~Sovereign of the Spirit.

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