

Introduction I read a big bad book the other dayIntroduction by ~thearistocat
About how you all want to be just like sovereigns
You all want to build a tower with giant Legos
And that in your desperation you regret to see
That Lego is weak
And that a simple breeze will claim you
What a big bad book indeed, and
Fraudulent bloodthirsty lucent and gaping


Snake Once a man,Snake by ~thearistocat
They removed a snake from below his ear
Beige, small, but hot red eyes
And nonetheless a snake
What did it feel like afterwards?
The relief was too great for words
For years (due to the colour)
He thought perhaps it was a vein
A large, ugly vein
And then an infection
Of a most unusual shape
Like something from a film
The face seems pure
Until you turn the other cheek
All that would you believe?
Overwhelmed
Thats nothing!
His friend declared
My sweetheart saw the angriest snake!
In a field, in our humble little town
It was every colour of the rainbow
And she still made it to work the ne


Ill ButterflyIll by ~thearistocat
Yes, frail
and darker in the centre
And rich
Der Meister
licks the flames,
and Bitter
looks down,
lighter,
still,
and upwards
Flames rise
from the tips.
Thinks of the red
giant
Sees
a pencilled in face,
moths he never knew
The secrets
The entrapment
A blinding sun
From a cellar
hands reaching
for the stairs
so as not to melt
all amongst
a gaping wing
Tenses
Sneers
and thinks
Sick.


The Flood MyThe Flood by ~thearistocat
All this time I thought I was chasing a dream
I was simply chasing whale bones down a stream
Vain? Me?
That may be
But still I cannot describe,
The way the water did race with me,
The pure glimmer of the silk,
Or the sheer hilarity!
That silk whale boned corset
I thought was setting me free
was all this time
merely suffocating me
The Flood that took our small town
washed those bones back out to the ocean
Oh, Dear Diary, all I could see,
Were whale bones, floating down a stream!