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The Killer |
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Drexler_McStyles Member
since 2002-11-18
Posts 195Venice, Ca |
a black pool gathers under the cloak of midnight slowly sifts through cracks in the hardwood floor the mallet drops from his hand and lies silently with the dust with the darkness the moonlight grants form to swaying palms, ravaged by the wind their shadows come streaking across the room reeling through the windowpanes trembling under the pressure the forces of the world outside he goes to the sink in the kitchen and washes her from his hands makes a cup with them and raises it to his face he cross-examines his steps mumbles explanatory devices reasons that justify the deed steadied in a daze he drags his coat away from a chair turns the knob and steps back out into the emptiness of a lifeless night |
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