Blue Dogs and Parchment Shields

sniff out the garish lights loud music and drunken discussions enter the party uninvited conceive uneasiness and instant disdain you try to dance with strangers who quickly slide away. somewhere in the intercourse of a reddish night they feed you to a pack of blue dogs willing to drag you down into their fetid fires. Loneliness warps all reason lowers the standard opens the vein to jagged strangers liaisons come and go like a roman legion they begin the journey devil bold ranks thinning by the minute by the hour till only one soul remains beneath a parchment shield his destiny to forever cower