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~The Greatest Show from Hell~ A circus quietly drifted through our town, causing everyone here to curse the ground– where they toiled to set~up their ghastly show. They passed the town, demonic eyes aglow— ~*~ † No jugglers, tight ropes nor funny clowns, not one living soul– anywhere–to be found. Not one was sure of their rueful intentions, demonic creatures from hell's dark dimensions. ~*~ † A diabolical debauchery– everyone surmised, Malevolent menagerie's pure evil went undisguised... ~*~ † The old Barker's visage–terrifying scene! How his demonic minions danced, would sing; –luring everyone into a cavort of death. A performance designed to steal our breath ~*~ † Like nothing we had ever seen before, this pale white horrid, smiling troubadour, raised single bony arm upwards, toward the sky when, suddenly, from osseous hands did fly— ~*~ † Such metaphysical mastery, it seemed, his dead eyes with unholy forces— gleamed; demanding the townfolks expiation, or face the fires–eternal Hell's damnation. ~*~ † A boisterous, bellowing wall of flame, within the very midst, from whence it came; all manner of devilish succubi– did dance and sing a damning lullaby. ~*~ † Like Pied Piper's rats led to the slaughter, eldest townsfolk; brothers, sons and daughters, entered into that billowing wall of flame, were consumed, never heard nor seen again... ~*~ † An epoch of such epic proportions! These creatures, continued—horrific contortions, until— mercifully— faded to crimson mist evaporated them, like grain, churned to grist. ~*~ † The spot is still marked where they all succumbed, if you're caught standing near, then, back they'll come, –unsatiated, taking not just young and old... As they feel, you too, just might be cajoled. ~*~ † Legend calls it the Greatest Hell on Earth; a place of torture–a kind of new unbirth The place I reside, not comfortably well, having witnessed the Greatest Show from Hell...
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