Sleeping with the Muse,
my nights have grown short
Sleeping with the Muse,
all senses comport
Sleeping with the Muse,
words dance with delight
Sleeping with the Muse,
confronting my fright
Sleeping with the Muse,
her will tests again
Sleeping with the Muse,
not lover or friend
Sleeping with the Muse,
my dreams sacrificed
Sleeping with the Muse,
all rest put on ice
Sleeping with the Muse,
the whispers come clean
Sleeping with the Muse,
excuses demeaned
Sleeping with the Muse,
my spool is respun
Sleeping with the Muse,
divorced from the sun
Sleeping with the Muse,
in darkness I learn
Sleeping with the Muse,
my spirit confirmed
Sleeping with the Muse
till dawn’s freeing light
Sleeping with the Muse
—new verse to take flight
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2016)
Sleeping with the Muse,
my nights have grown short
Sleeping with the Muse,
my spirit comports
Sleeping with the Muse
words dance with delight
Sleeping with the Muse
confronting my fright
Sleeping with the Muse
her will tests again
Sleeping with the Muse
not lover nor friend
Sleeping with the Muse
my dreams sacrifice
Sleeping with the Muse
all rest put on ice
Sleeping with the Muse
the whispers come clean
Sleeping with the Muse
excuses demeaned
Sleeping with the Muse,
my spool is respun
Sleeping with the Muse
divorced from the sun
Sleeping with the Muse
in darkness I learn
Sleeping with the Muse
the day will confirm
Sleeping with the Muse
till dawn’s freeing light
Sleeping with the Muse
—new words to take flight
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2016) On-Line
How great each face would gleam;
We ate cake and did have a dream;
Each other kissed;
Never had missed;
Dear don't forget to put on ice cream.
Jim Horn
Don’t get head stamped with the devil call sign,
neon bar code ...
666
If you sell your soul,
be made human merchandise
You’re gonna get locked up
in a freezer
Have your salvation permanently put on ice
Being made a cold case
comes with a price
Six sixty six
You struck a bargain
that no sum of money can fix
666
You thought you could cover your sins
with a cobra hood
Why did you purchase evil for good?
Aah ... when you get tricked,
it’s always understood
Playing the whore,
had you lusting for more and more
Ravenous evil tastes
had you greedily licking
the bloody juices off the plate
Filled up your gluttonous jowls
Coroner report says it was murder most foul
You killed yourself for what,
to get triple six stamped on your cold morgue butt?
Being made a suicide patsy
comes with a price
Six sixty six
You took out a bad loan,
and no amount of usury can cover it
666
You paid one devil of a price ...
Triple six has bought your cursed soul
a one-way cruise ticket to Hades,
on the ghost ship Hell Afterlife
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