Short Crookedness Poems

Sin of sloth

           Idle brain is the workshop of devil
           Crookedness creating framing sin of sloth
            Nasty nuisance turning most evil,
            scattering, throwing up malicious froth.

    
     07/05/22

    Sin of Sloth

Contest by Margarita Lillico...

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iron pits your couldron's stare
down ages, hags, before you
sought, with snake, 
in dusty room, 
no see-through corners
candlelit, those candle teeth, 
a shack, a mouth
with rotting feather, 
tooth and hair 
on beam of dead ‘ns hanging
droop, scythed blood
in drops and gushes 
fruit a mixture that you stir

who said that you were old
and frayed, 
with jagged stark
and crookedness
you cried, had thighs
and smiles that lit, 
those witches, dead, 
became you...

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