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Wallop When

Sear my heart, O rampant rage!
Simmer deep within!
Scour, devour this rusty cage!
What it takes to win...

As below, thus up above?
Not in this fair world.
Raptor hawk, guard well the dove?
Dead man's fingers curled...

Golden sparks to signal?
Attention that will get!
O prospectors, pill or pall?
Does it pay to fret?

No! Indeed not, my wild child!
Red run reconciled?
Crocodile in Nile beguiled?
Doubt and dismay dialed.

Tiled like floors in ancient tower?
Which architect planned?
Nightshade, is thy milk a-sour?
Blighted by the banned.

Is the ocean welling up?
Where the wound began?
Ark of Covenant, thy cup!
Revenant, how you ran!

Mutilation! Mutiny!
Murder in the streets!
Something lurking we can't see?
Have you seen the beats?

Reservations kept for six?
Bring thy crucifix.
Sullen heat out in the sticks?
Candles without wicks.

Fix it up, O soldiers!
We really must make do.
He who survives, first deters!
Ask the wallop hoo...

Copyright © Chris Jensen

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