Uncle Edgar

Ever
Baltimore’s
Own
Gutter
Splayed

Marinade

Torrential excreta
&
Booze-sopped
Rot.

‘Arrogant, reprobate
Godforsaken
Beggarly’
Execration
Of
‘Hideous
Mortification’

How could I know?
In my Catholic
Pleated
Adulation

That the Throbbing
Derangement
Of
Amaranthine Palpation

That the Ebon
Plumaged
Accusation
Quaffing
Sanity/Soul
Brew

That Detested
Fortunato
Ever
Questing
Amontillado


That all
That
All

Were You.


In the Sepulchre
Miasma
Of
The Resounding
Sounding
Seas

Where Mediocrity
& Genius

Bob and Weave
Bob and Weave

We Dissever
Evermore
Beyond the
Compass

Cleaved.

But at
Eventide
I lay down my pride

Gobbling
Kaleidoscopic
Ampoules
Savoring
Swallow
&
Glide.

Staving Unhallowed
Dominion
As
Mephistophelean
Bride.

Seizing
Hound of Usher
By the Throat
To
Engrave
&
Inscribe.

Yes,
Your
Ever-lasting
Torment
Is Kindred
Close
Betide.


And the Angels Sob
As Vermin Fangs
In Human Gore,
Imbued.

Eternal Travelers
Of Valley Shadow
Where Demons Pillage
& Denude


Where Horror rakes the Dawn
And Soundless Screams are Born
Where Joy is ‘ere Foresworn
And Adamantine Breath, Be

Mourned.


Two Ravaged Lives
Bestrewn.

Prophetic sounds … arise forever
From Us, and from

all Ruin …