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Autumn Leaves

volume 4 number 6

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Exorcise

by Susan Humphreys

COME TO DADDY
She whispers,
Seductively, audibly,
Razor-sharp.
I'll give you x-actly
What you need.
YOU NEED TO BLEED

I'll show you sanguine innocence
Splattered violently
Against a lily-white drop cloth.
Your darkened soul
Is yet an unbroken hymen.

Mercilessly, I will engrave my pain
   Slowly,
Rhythmically,
   Burning, tearing, piercing,
      Until…

Your splitting scream bleeds infernal black,
Exorcising from within me The Mark of the Beast,
While you impotently drown in your own venal sacrilege.

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