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She's Ripe

Humanity is desperate for a taker The archaic foundation is shaken and Bitter worms are writhing from among the cracks like a slow nightmare to overtake mom's apple pie Nature responding reaches its arms to its Maker With a plea traveling on stale wind come back in this dark hour and see the need for food and water a reliable electrical source Arms wrapped in tragedy see no color Help is a word uttered only by the needy Breathing a resuscitating breath that empowers the greedy Opportunity its glass to the door Enters with the ring of a bell The lie approaching full term has a nation on bed rest while little green men stand ready to wet nurse this idea with dissenter blood This Vamp This beast has the most intriguing and beguiling of names With trumpets and fanfare This babe arises NEW HOPE! And with her the ages change She plucks out your heart and leaves your eyes in so you can watch her She loves an audience and like a lustful perpetrator She presses her pointy finger to your lips and says Shhhh.... Don't you speak If you move you die When she is done she bandages your wounds and goes on about how lucky you are You've always been smarter than me John There are your degrees Your craft to make stretchy taffy of the truth and set criminals free BUT LOOK AT HER! Naked post mortem pale Piss drenched rats scurrying about her Gnawing nudging prying her lips apart Leaving a crap trail as they squeeze down her throat to Feast on her heart(What a heart, the best there ever was) So they can find their way out after they've gorged themselves on blood You used to love her John. She's a whore. She's somebody's daughter, a mother to many. For God's sake cover her body Men in lab coats with a wave of inconvenience are summoned in Their necks ebb and flow with inconspicuous snickering Then everything stops suddenly a pupil dilated hush covers the room the silence surrendering to drops of drool wakening the frigid Coroner's floor You know who........ YOU KNOW WHO THIS IS! Quick, get out your phones Let's take a group selfie You know who this is..... Don't you? Her name starts with an A!

Copyright © | Year Posted 2015




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