There's a teddy bear with his feet in the air
in the middle of the cat's soft bed.
It was his favourite toy, his pride and joy,
'til he decided to rip off it's head.
If you believe as I've come to believe,
that reincarnation, by design,
brings serial killers back, who continue to attack
in the form of a fuzzy feline.
He has a skill for the hunt and the kill.
You just know he's been at it forever.
But the new disguise -those whiskers, those eyes -
well that was damn well clever.
Sept. 5, 2026
the witches creed was “to no creature do harm”
jealous men were annoyed by their confidence
Brothers Grimm used witches as storybook villains
attempting to take them down a couple of notches
witches were always for the greater good
they were gardeners, nurturers, and healers
Their balms and remedies were created to help others
jealous men twisted their cauldrons into evil instruments
I hope that men do know the difference between right and wrong.
My life’s creed depends on it; it is “be yourself always”.
I imagine the witch-tormentors must have figured it out.
If they had not, the Salem Witch trials would be happening today.
I like to think that they were horrified when the innocent drowned.
Proof they were not witches.
I like to think we shun away from evil.
My mantra “be yourself always” is not meant for serial killers.
Smith & Wesson were very, very creative serial killers but (of course) that pair were no match for the absolute master … *God.
*God - When I say god, I mean an abstraction invented to quench a thirst, relieve an empty stomach, and kill your neighbours for one or both.
The 50’s people are in a diorama
behind a Perspex window,
for the most part they are cheerful,
they cut grass with push mowers,
swim in circles in above ground pools;
by and large they are not serial killers.
The museum is new, colorful and shiny.
The 50’s people wave mechanically
at all on-lookers.
A young questioner asks
why the 50’s people are not all dead?
A reasonable question
which the handler deflects
with a long tale about purple dinosaurs.
The kids are getting bored,
handlers usher them into a cafeteria,
where two 40’s people linger over
a tasteless, sanitized meal.
Youths rib poke each other and sneer.
The two 40’s people have no diorama
they have forgotten how to make one,
worst still, their handler died
the same year Barney went extinct.
Used to think rain was fired
by rain bows
boughs break
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Crying milk over cats in stilts
Do bygones come from Bygonia(let it go)
It’s all water under the bridge
If it was over it would be a flood
Biting the hatchet
Bury the bullet
Do oiled witches
Fly off the handle
Does that mean you can rub someone the right way
Are astronauts seldom under the weather
If you cut all corners do you get a circle
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If you turned a blind eye wouldn’t the seeing eye turn as well
Do serial killers warn people by giving them a heads up
If you never looked back would you eventually go round the world to where you were originally
I can’t remember but I think I gave someone a piece of my mind the
step
I think this is your stop
Is Hotel Cecil cursed?
A portal to hell?
How many have died there?
Accidentally or by murder and suicide?
It is the most notoriously haunted hotel in America.
Associated with macabre incidents, serial killers.
Downtown Los Angeles is host to these seven hundred rooms.
Shall I book you a room? There is always a vacancy.
Diabolical laughter.
it sounded like a car door slamming shut
All three dogs begin the howling yowling bark
Then they run to mama
I am mama
I look out the window
to make sure a delivery man has made his escape
no one is out there
Open the door and they race through it
as if they are on the scent of six serial killers
it takes us a while to get inside
Every dog finds a place and flops.
Bam!
Another car door.
The chase begins anew
How much is a human life worth?
How much is a human life worth?
My one is zero pounds, zero pence
I called with my smartphone to …
… to a university department of psychology
A professor replied in a sarcastic tone:
Sir Galyo, your life is nothing, zero pounds and zero pence
So, I am nothing, human life is nothing
My feelings, emotions, and breathing are nothing
Okay, hmmm, what can I do, serial killers follow me
And just killing, killing my life. My life. Why? I don’t know
They have murderous tendencies, are cruel, insensitive
My life is horror, my life is pain. Terrible. Dark fate.
What can I do?
With my life?
Heavy
Burden
I drag it
In the United States,
152 serial killers
are responsible
for 12,746 deaths
was not the first thing
I wanted to read
this sunny
Sunday morning,
but the news feed
had other ideas
and teaches how easy
it is for life to fall
to pieces~
it ever preaches
how a human hyena
searches for prey,
and no speeches
how we should pray!
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings. ~Jeremiah 17:9-10 KJV
Do serial killers do head counts
Why are spaceships aerodynamic
Why is loud in cloud
See at the back of a hospital is that the backwards
Surely a plaster is more use than time on wounds
Every sad comes with an ad
How many sides does the sea have
What do rocket scientists say when something is easy
Does that mean that 2 birds in the hands is worth 4 in the bush
Can you get half a hole
Shouldn’t geysers be waterrisings
Is a Tom really small
The pencil is mightier than the sword
cause that nobody is John ing Wick
How could you light a candle at both ends
Well I suppose if it was balanced on a glass
Every cat I have had must have been on their last life
Wish there was a room full of mush
Time is loads of ships
Fleeting
What do you get for 2 kings and a queen in chess
God save save the….. what is it this week
2 soon
In the words of Queen
Matter really nothing me to
See if you have a..never mind
Poison was always the silent killer.
Kings and emperors fell prey to it easily.
The favorite poisoner of the Roman Emperor Nero,
this woman ended many lives with her deadly poisons.
FUKIING BIITCH,this woman’s story is a true deadly drama.
Widely considered as one of the earliest documented serial killers,
She was certainly a deadly dame.
Note.chemical drink silent killer...
Arkham
Is not for me
I wish I were writing
But instead I’ve got guard duty
With serial killers and maniacs
Screaming, howling, crying
Joker, Two-Face
Riddler
Why does The Bat
Let these guys stay alive?
But I guess Arkham might be worse
With its leaky pipes and drafty windows
Gruel for every single person
(So I pack my own lunch)
Anyone who
Sees this:
We’re hiring
No wonder the villains
Keep on escaping this prison
We can’t take on more supervillains here
Batman! Send us more employees
If you want the bad guys
To stay put here
Alas,
Time to make rounds
In this cold and dank place
I don’t get paid enough for this
But at least they match my 401k
Only up to a percentage...
But I do get dental!
Uh-oh…Joker’s
Laughing
Why are serial killers so fascinating?
Stories about them are proliferating
Is it that our inner nature is macabre?
We are intrigued by the actions of a mob,
Traffic slows for a look at an accident
Our attention is drawn to an incident,
We must crave excitement in our lives
Learning people get carved up with knives,
Anything that captivates our attention,
Even some things I dare not mention.
We are intrigued by bad to the worse,
Yes, even stopping to stare at a hearse.
Written October 6, 2022
Turn on the telle watch wives with knives
Murder on CCTV, victims lose their lives
Turn on the telle, no one write a script
There’s a post-mortem in a darkened crypt
Cops chasing crims, drunken street fights
Nothing to entertain what a load of ****
Turn on the telle, comedy nowhere to be seen
Instead, Botox tarts and live sex on your screen
Let’s turn on the telle, killer by the sea
A victim in the lift on secondhand TV
Let’s turn on the telle, Katie’s dirty mansion
Faces of the dead and worship of Charles Manson
Let’s turn on the telle, bound to be something good
A serial killers voice over, dating in the nud’
Let’s turn on the telle, bodies in black bags
Dumped in the river, by a couple of psycho lads
Let’s turn on the telle, see how he cut her throat
Battered her to death, on his flash speedboat
Let’s turn on the telle, get some new ideas
How to maim, torture, kill, down through the years
Let’s turn on the telle, see how the Kray's ruled
Sixty-nine channels of murder, has it got you fooled?
David Cox 09/02/22
Written By: D. Collins 12/3/21
Brain cells are the cause of the stuff we're in.
Where obvious individuals don't get treatment.
The true instigators are now on the run.
They enticed it to happen and got ghost on their son.
Looking at his parents, Youngblood has been jacked for life.
Two grimey individuals joined as husband and wife.
They're like serial killers, where son puts in the work.
An exact re-enactment of the "Chainsaw Massacre."
The youth didn't know what was being passed to him.
The genes of real monsters we call family and kin.
Brain cells are what causes a person to react.
But, parents are always supposed to have your back.
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