Signed In Blood (Part 3)
I shake out my jacket
and crack my neck
to regain my control
although I’m enjoying
being hostile.
The room is now darker than pitch
so I remove my shades
from the windows
to let in
the moon’s
blue luminescence,
as the light returns
and the blood turns a shade of black
I drop the illusion,
release my true self
for the few left to see.
All through the place
I can hear
the whimpers and cries
of the few remaining.
I smear into the shadow
under a table
and as I locate
the stragglers
I dispatch them
tearing out throats,
spraying myself down
with their
once life supporting liquid.
Then there were three.
Rising from the darkness
of the footrest
under the bar
I stand before
the one on the stool
and bare
my blood slickened teeth
then lick the gore
from my claws
getting shivers
from the taste.
With a snap of my fingers
her restraints dissolve,
not like she can go anywhere.
She just sits there
trembling,
trying to find her voice
but its hard
with the gaping hole
in her jaw.
I raise my
black,
coarse tentacles
and grab her
by each wrist and ankle
bringing her off her last seat
and start stretching her
before me,
her vocal cords
start to work now
as she assaults me
with the most
pain filled scream
my ears have had the pleasure
of hearing.
(Ahhhh)
All I do
is keep staring
into those
beautiful,
pain drenched eyes,
and pulling.
I can hear
the tendons and ligaments
popping and snapping
as the shoulders and hips
begin to separate,
with a sickly,
wet ripping sound
her right arm
and left leg
come free,
then the other arm.
Holding onto
the last limb left
I swing her about,
into ceiling,
floor,
then the bar
with bone shattering force,
I dissolve my tendrils
back into myself
then reaching down
I snag her ponytail
and tug it out
of the lump
that was her head
and add it to my other
on my belt.
I hear a cell phone ringing
for someone
who doesn’t need it anymore
and I giggle
at how ironic it is.
Copyright © Mark Matthews | Year Posted 2008
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