Circus Memento Amore by Renaissance-Heart, literature
Literature
Circus Memento Amore
Roll up, roll up Roll up and see the newest member of midnight's menagerie A bountiful beauty phantasm fair death-shroud skin and hyacinth hair Languorous lips southern fried tone Never Never eyes Blood rose cheekbone Listen up, listen up Listen up and hear Her siren lament of days dark and dear A sensual song Phantasm fine death-cry cadence From mouse-bone shrine Threnody thrills of morbid malaise Canine chorus of Zodiac days Look up, look up Look up and see The newest shadow in mind's tragedy A surreal part written on rhyme circuitous script composed real-time A part she played in the playwright's head but rejected in real the director's shared bed "Our values are twain" the ghost quothed shivering in sorrow lamentation loathed The ghost girl gone but her ghost lingers on in psychic theatre a spectral love spawn Roll up, roll up Roll up and see the freshest phantom of our sad jubilee
For a second it was there a tongue searching the gap where a tooth once lived tasting an absence a hole a void an ache a mistake the tongue a dumb muscle defined by what isn't there a numb flap of flesh meant for taste it is tasteless meant for speech it is speechless meant for saying i miss you but the tooth is gone and cannot hear anyway lost and will not grow back or be replaced but the tongue with no memory cannot forget as it searches it says i miss you An itch where a limb once scratched Tingling from underuse from neglect from atrophy under the careful guise of boundary and respect of love forever present, but Ignored Now fire ant pricks up and down the skin setting fires burning inside out Reminding that it isn't there and never will be again a hand reaches out to rub the skin but passes through the ghost that isn't there haunting the cobwebbed corners of pointless longing saying i miss you The ghost cannot hear and cannot see the pain and the loss the moment to
The Moving Finger by Renaissance-Heart, literature
Literature
The Moving Finger
The moving middle finger writes and having writ the finger takes flight on Airforce One till its out of sight into the stark and never-ending night leaving us in the dark and we can't see are we in this night eternally if the sun decides to turn and flee if we are blind then can we be free the writing is on the twitter account but we won't believe the bitter amount of racism, sexism, and as it starts to mount and the building and unyielding body count leaving us in the stink of massive graves as COVID drowns us in massing waves those that can see hide in their caves 'cause their fear of fear has made them slaves The writing is on the god damned wall and if you can't read the screaming scrawl it means you just don't want to read at all as pride fucks with you right before you fall Leaving you in the same hole as the rest you bare your teeth and beat your chest never once these words have you addressed you'll be buried beside your precious war chest It has been written and it
The Curious Carnival of Cryptid Town by Renaissance-Heart, literature
Literature
The Curious Carnival of Cryptid Town
Bigfoot rode the Bunyip down
Down the road to Cryptid Town
On the way he waved to Yowie
As he danced with David Bowie
Nessie there with his Aunt Tessie
Blessing him out for getting messy
Caddy swam among the bracken
Cracking nuts with his friend the Kraken
The Mothman lit the lantern lights
The Lizard Man filled the night with frights
The Dover Demon and the Jersey Devil
Prepared the place for a day of revel
Manitou, Moa, and Morag
All decided to attend it stag
But Chupacabra brought Lady Champ
While Vatnagedda brought the Vamp
Wendigo he wound up the crowd
But Orobon thought he was too loud
The Cactus Cat brought the cake
But Skunk Ape dro
Argus Goes to the Eye Doctor by Renaissance-Heart, literature
Literature
Argus Goes to the Eye Doctor
“Have a seat Mr. Panoptes,” the doctor gestured to the patient chair.
Argus shook his head. “I’d rather stand if that’s alright. Several of my eyes are on my butt, you see.”
“Oh yes, that’s right. Well, can you lean down here and look through the phoropter here…” the doctor pointed to the large machine with many knobs, dials, and lenses.
“Is that what it's called? I always wondered.”
The doctor laughed, “Yes. Kinda sounds like velociraptor doesn’t it?”
“Not really. Which eyes do you want me to look with?”
“Which eyes are you getting che
Once upon a midnight cheery, while I winged dark and eerie,
Over many a low and gloomy home of the wretched poor—
Curious I perched on a door and began a tapping,
While my wings were a flapping, flapping at this chamber door.
“’Tis some visitor,” someone said, “tapping at my chamber door—
Only this and nothing more.”
Perhaps from morbid boredom, or else mayhaps, lack of decorum,
Led me to tap upon this home which I had never done before;
My wings were all a flutter, but inside I heard someone mutter,
“’Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door—
Some late visitor entreat
The Maiden and the Unicorn by Renaissance-Heart, literature
Literature
The Maiden and the Unicorn
The Maiden and the Unicorn
Or How Asphodel Came to the World
In the ages that myth largely forgot, hidden along the eastern reaches of the Cloud Breaker Mountains was a secret valley. There the Aurora River flowed down from the highest summits of the snow-capped mountains only to disappear deep in some undiscovered starless sea. In that valley, unknown by man or Alvar, roamed the last heard of black unicorns.
Beings more of shadow than substance, the black unicorns grazed upon the verdant fields of that hidden valley, and upon the more secret fields of asphodel that grew thick upon the shores of still waters deep below. They were alo
Blue Collar Goblins by Renaissance-Heart, literature
Literature
Blue Collar Goblins
Grunk and Shunt made their way down to the seventh level of the Calamitous Catacombs of Skullaxion; each carrying several wooden buckets containing various knives, axes, saws, and other gruesome tools of the trade. It was morning, though you couldn’t tell this far below the surface. The fever-mold seemed to bloom more prettily across the walls in the morning, but the smell of rotting corpses was always a little worse. At least Grunk thought so.
“Was there another raid last night? I didn’t hear anything.” Grunk said as he and his work make rounded the stone spiral staircase, carefully stepping over the trapped s
Sigma walked down the rows of thousands of fellow workers in the routing warehouse, many already processing at their own stations, to their mini-cube workstation, plugged in their secure head-wire, logged in, and began the work-cycle.
The cavernous warehouse echoed with the sounds of thousands of typing individuals which sounded like forgotten rain.
Sigma’s HUD displayed the typical welcome message in green. “May the Machina Dei program a productive work cycle designation: Sigma-990.111.1301. Praise be the Program.”
Sigma always responded verbally, “Praise be the Program.”
Suddenly, SigmaR
“This is not how I wanted to spend retirement,” Charles whispered.
“What?” Clara asked as she finished delicately wiping the surface of the stone.
Charles frowned down at his wife Clara, as she placed butcher paper over the ancient and crumbling gravestone, and began taping the sides.
“It’s just a bit morbid isn’t it?” He said, and not the first time.
“It is.”
“So why do you do it?” Charles yawned and blinked into the morning sun, and watched his breath steam. He buried his hands deeper into his pockets and tried to bury
Circus Memento Amore by Renaissance-Heart, literature
Literature
Circus Memento Amore
Roll up, roll up Roll up and see the newest member of midnight's menagerie A bountiful beauty phantasm fair death-shroud skin and hyacinth hair Languorous lips southern fried tone Never Never eyes Blood rose cheekbone Listen up, listen up Listen up and hear Her siren lament of days dark and dear A sensual song Phantasm fine death-cry cadence From mouse-bone shrine Threnody thrills of morbid malaise Canine chorus of Zodiac days Look up, look up Look up and see The newest shadow in mind's tragedy A surreal part written on rhyme circuitous script composed real-time A part she played in the playwright's head but rejected in real the director's shared bed "Our values are twain" the ghost quothed shivering in sorrow lamentation loathed The ghost girl gone but her ghost lingers on in psychic theatre a spectral love spawn Roll up, roll up Roll up and see the freshest phantom of our sad jubilee
For a second it was there a tongue searching the gap where a tooth once lived tasting an absence a hole a void an ache a mistake the tongue a dumb muscle defined by what isn't there a numb flap of flesh meant for taste it is tasteless meant for speech it is speechless meant for saying i miss you but the tooth is gone and cannot hear anyway lost and will not grow back or be replaced but the tongue with no memory cannot forget as it searches it says i miss you An itch where a limb once scratched Tingling from underuse from neglect from atrophy under the careful guise of boundary and respect of love forever present, but Ignored Now fire ant pricks up and down the skin setting fires burning inside out Reminding that it isn't there and never will be again a hand reaches out to rub the skin but passes through the ghost that isn't there haunting the cobwebbed corners of pointless longing saying i miss you The ghost cannot hear and cannot see the pain and the loss the moment to
The Moving Finger by Renaissance-Heart, literature
Literature
The Moving Finger
The moving middle finger writes and having writ the finger takes flight on Airforce One till its out of sight into the stark and never-ending night leaving us in the dark and we can't see are we in this night eternally if the sun decides to turn and flee if we are blind then can we be free the writing is on the twitter account but we won't believe the bitter amount of racism, sexism, and as it starts to mount and the building and unyielding body count leaving us in the stink of massive graves as COVID drowns us in massing waves those that can see hide in their caves 'cause their fear of fear has made them slaves The writing is on the god damned wall and if you can't read the screaming scrawl it means you just don't want to read at all as pride fucks with you right before you fall Leaving you in the same hole as the rest you bare your teeth and beat your chest never once these words have you addressed you'll be buried beside your precious war chest It has been written and it
The Curious Carnival of Cryptid Town by Renaissance-Heart, literature
Literature
The Curious Carnival of Cryptid Town
Bigfoot rode the Bunyip down
Down the road to Cryptid Town
On the way he waved to Yowie
As he danced with David Bowie
Nessie there with his Aunt Tessie
Blessing him out for getting messy
Caddy swam among the bracken
Cracking nuts with his friend the Kraken
The Mothman lit the lantern lights
The Lizard Man filled the night with frights
The Dover Demon and the Jersey Devil
Prepared the place for a day of revel
Manitou, Moa, and Morag
All decided to attend it stag
But Chupacabra brought Lady Champ
While Vatnagedda brought the Vamp
Wendigo he wound up the crowd
But Orobon thought he was too loud
The Cactus Cat brought the cake
But Skunk Ape dro
Argus Goes to the Eye Doctor by Renaissance-Heart, literature
Literature
Argus Goes to the Eye Doctor
“Have a seat Mr. Panoptes,” the doctor gestured to the patient chair.
Argus shook his head. “I’d rather stand if that’s alright. Several of my eyes are on my butt, you see.”
“Oh yes, that’s right. Well, can you lean down here and look through the phoropter here…” the doctor pointed to the large machine with many knobs, dials, and lenses.
“Is that what it's called? I always wondered.”
The doctor laughed, “Yes. Kinda sounds like velociraptor doesn’t it?”
“Not really. Which eyes do you want me to look with?”
“Which eyes are you getting che
Once upon a midnight cheery, while I winged dark and eerie,
Over many a low and gloomy home of the wretched poor—
Curious I perched on a door and began a tapping,
While my wings were a flapping, flapping at this chamber door.
“’Tis some visitor,” someone said, “tapping at my chamber door—
Only this and nothing more.”
Perhaps from morbid boredom, or else mayhaps, lack of decorum,
Led me to tap upon this home which I had never done before;
My wings were all a flutter, but inside I heard someone mutter,
“’Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door—
Some late visitor entreat
The Maiden and the Unicorn by Renaissance-Heart, literature
Literature
The Maiden and the Unicorn
The Maiden and the Unicorn
Or How Asphodel Came to the World
In the ages that myth largely forgot, hidden along the eastern reaches of the Cloud Breaker Mountains was a secret valley. There the Aurora River flowed down from the highest summits of the snow-capped mountains only to disappear deep in some undiscovered starless sea. In that valley, unknown by man or Alvar, roamed the last heard of black unicorns.
Beings more of shadow than substance, the black unicorns grazed upon the verdant fields of that hidden valley, and upon the more secret fields of asphodel that grew thick upon the shores of still waters deep below. They were alo
Blue Collar Goblins by Renaissance-Heart, literature
Literature
Blue Collar Goblins
Grunk and Shunt made their way down to the seventh level of the Calamitous Catacombs of Skullaxion; each carrying several wooden buckets containing various knives, axes, saws, and other gruesome tools of the trade. It was morning, though you couldn’t tell this far below the surface. The fever-mold seemed to bloom more prettily across the walls in the morning, but the smell of rotting corpses was always a little worse. At least Grunk thought so.
“Was there another raid last night? I didn’t hear anything.” Grunk said as he and his work make rounded the stone spiral staircase, carefully stepping over the trapped s
Sigma walked down the rows of thousands of fellow workers in the routing warehouse, many already processing at their own stations, to their mini-cube workstation, plugged in their secure head-wire, logged in, and began the work-cycle.
The cavernous warehouse echoed with the sounds of thousands of typing individuals which sounded like forgotten rain.
Sigma’s HUD displayed the typical welcome message in green. “May the Machina Dei program a productive work cycle designation: Sigma-990.111.1301. Praise be the Program.”
Sigma always responded verbally, “Praise be the Program.”
Suddenly, SigmaR
“This is not how I wanted to spend retirement,” Charles whispered.
“What?” Clara asked as she finished delicately wiping the surface of the stone.
Charles frowned down at his wife Clara, as she placed butcher paper over the ancient and crumbling gravestone, and began taping the sides.
“It’s just a bit morbid isn’t it?” He said, and not the first time.
“It is.”
“So why do you do it?” Charles yawned and blinked into the morning sun, and watched his breath steam. He buried his hands deeper into his pockets and tried to bury
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