The Lobster Family

The Lobster Family 

The lobotomy was successful those creeps said 
Draped in their robes of silk and snake sheadings  
The burning fumes of ethanol force their way up nostrils 
Reducing my mind to silly putty 
A carnival you say, well how fun could that be? 
To see the dashed hopes, dreams, and brains of imps kept in splinters   
Or are they babies?
Though I do believe both words mean the same thing 
An army of rats now surrounds our doomed party, led by the great general 
Tuleisius 
Rumored if I might say, to eat his own offspring. 
But a hero nonetheless, for he has subdued the rebellious mice, 
Who have been accused of tainting the sweet chocolate with rat poison 
They consume those who are too weak and slow, 
Picking off the feeble breasted and minded  
Sticky gum and cotton hold me in place, 
As I’m forced to watch those beasts tunnel through my skin 
Engineering mazes of channels throughout my body 
Or are they just veins?
Copyright © | Year Posted 2014

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August 27, 2014 at 7:44 PM
LEEBAN, Stopping by with a nice, sweet Welcome to Poetry Soup. I will get much delight, in reading and in time become familiar with your verse. As for now, I will greet you with the same smile, others passed, when I first join the soup 4 years ago. I wish you the best when it comes to your compositions. I hope you get to meet all the nice poets around here. Starting with me. SKAT :-) Please drop a hello and tell me a little about yourself if you wish. I would like to be your newest poetry soup "FRIEND" Hugs* SKAT
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August 24, 2014 at 8:04 AM
- Warm welcome to PoetrySoup, Leeban - I choose your first great written free verse - Well done - Nice to meet you! - Hope you will be satisfied with our "soup family" - we are many .. but has plenty of room for you too- Be kind and keep PoetrySoup as a haven PoetrySoup is a drama free zone(Comment on the poetry of others and they will comment on yours.) Thank you posted your words and thoughts here, I want to come back to read more another day. - oxox // Anne-Lise :)
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August 22, 2014 at 6:44 PM
hey Leeban, Welcome to poetrysoup. An interesting first offering, a couple of your last lines got cut off though, you can edit your poems through the mypoems page. Hope you enjoy being here, reading and writing:)
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August 22, 2014 at 2:41 PM
LeeBan,, A nice warm WELCOME to poetry soup. I hope you enjoy the community. You'll find many friendly poets, who are ready to support and give positive feedback. I want to be the first to invite you on over, to the contest page. I OFFER MY CONTEST, in hopes it inspires you to write another poem. I'm looking forward to following you and your poetry:) Here's the link to the contest page. http://www.poetrysoup.com/poetry_contests/ <---~Take Care!! From: your new poet friend @-> LINDA <-@
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