As the Foundation Sinks

the pantomiming madman squeals appeals as tall gray shadows elongate along the wall like black-hearted judges brewing venom within their jowls bulging and anticipating the reaping of tears and tremulous wails the growl of steel-bars and the verdict of iron-doors molds monsters masticating pheromones of trepidation as the silent song of degradation infects ears of prisoners dripping nightmares into their brains wading in masks the jolting alarm of roll-call roiling disjointed curses falling into the melody of servitude marching in syncopated perpetual motion as granite guards grind their hard jaws scanning with silver mirrors pupils expanding and contracting inside hellish universes of the condemned fingering fissures hemorrhaging light illuminating scales of a screeching snake…