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January 04, 2006

The Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Inventions

Chris Toll

1.
The laboratory in the flying saucer
is so bright and sterile.
The werewolf can’t find a place to hide.
He crouches beside the circular hatch.
Soon the floor will be awash in purple ichor.
His captors are about to learn
just how wrong things can go
when a full moon rides the night sky.

2.
The Special Agent has lost so much.
She holds a flashlight and a 9 mm pistol
and kicks a door open.
She wishes she could pray to God –
but all she believes in
is what she can capture in her beam of light.

3.
The ninjas glide through the corridors of a starship.
The pilot turns
and finds her head ringed by the tips of seven swords.
The starship lands in a clearing.
The ninjas slip out of the airlock
and enter the forest.
The trees have red bark and purple leaves.
Each leaf has a mouth and howls at the five moons.

4.
I’m the clouds drifting over your roof.
I’m the traffic streaming past your windows.
I’m the floorboards creaking beneath your shoes.

Posted by Rock Heals at January 4, 2006 12:40 AM