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50 Words For Poe: Rouge

"50 Words for Poe: Rouge" Rouge, sweet stains the bleeding mouth of the brain Green poison from the tongue of envy a postal note from Hell Rouge makes a bed with an enemy Knife slices the insipid pale in the bucket lies Hell's abysmal fail Rouge, dances in 3 inch sharp knives Rouge, slices lips and rips through black the widower's widow's veils Rouge Stilettos 'round a slick Rouge Rue Pole Slices through a dullard’s mind, eats it like Hot Creole Diamond eyes smiles Dark Vermillion gives a deep twist There’s the knife She’s wearing the cache a glistening string of rare pearls Silver Lady on the Open Road purrs (LadyLabyrinth/2019) (Notes on Murder Methodology from the Infernal Dante Dungeon) https://youtu.be/jXVADFT6m1g LOW/Candy Girl "What songs the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, although puzzling questions are not beyond all conjecture." – Sir Thomas Browne, "Urn-Burial" “You can’t train a monkey new tricks, inevitably bare feet runs the wild in the beast’s blood” Anonymous “Perdidit antiquum litera prima sonum” 1. Cache 2. Rue 3. Rouge 4. Ratiocination