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Nightmare.

by  Bobo

Posted: Monday, November 24, 2003
Word Count: 46




The jagged edges of the words you said,
can-can in drunken formation
inside this head
of mine.
Can you take them back?
Prise them from my skull,
these howling banshee cries?
Imprison their wretched
carcuses,
I beg you -
hurl them beyond the edge of fright.