A Mondo Gory Poem

Faces of Gore (1999) is a mondo shockumentary video that depicts graphic footage of bloody, mangled bodies which guides viewers through explicit scenes depicting a variety of ways to die and violent acts. I wanted to try my hand at Mondo genre poetry. I promise you I’m not a nut case. I’m just a highly imaginative poet. An ominous cloud lingers in my head Portending pernicious consequences. My sixth sense informs me what lays ahead Foretelling dire events in sequences: At first, a flash that's followed by thunder. But it’s not what the mind is telling me. A cloudless sky, than smoke, and no wonder A bomb tore asunder all that I see. The blood, ash and bone, dismembered bodies All littered the site once a theater. The mayhem and carnage that I foresee Was the work of a lone perpetrator. A marquee lying that stood heretofore Reads: Coming attraction, “Faces of gore”