With apologies to R.L. Stevenson
My submission notes from this period drowned in a flooded basement apartment; I'm pretty sure it was published, no idea where
Does your mom make you sit in a sw… She hurls it toward Timbuktu? Oh, I do think that’s the awfulle… Ever a mom can do! Splinters below and sunburn above,
It seems I am a most unwelcome gu… I know that since I came you’ve b… Come, tell me what you do when hap… What music do you play, what drugs… Oh yes, I know, though you are se…
They think I wrestle demons in th… They think I’m stirring frogs int… They’ve never seen us picnic in th… They’d never believe I made it fi… I brought the milk and cake, it di…
No sooner has the sun gone down When I awake and go to town. Since vampires bit me where I lay I have to go to bed by day. I wander round while others sleep.
I have a little demon who goes in… And how he came to be so cruel is… He is wrinkled, blue and stinky fr… And I see him try to trip me, whe… The weirdest thing about him is th…
At night time when the lights are… I cough a fearsome-sounding cough. If no one comes to check my health I climb upon the roof by stealth. I slide straight down the nearest…
Vapor things crawl out of sight Shadowed shapes loose in the night When company comes I don’t see th… A crash and a laugh and I know wh… They don’t put on the lights or si…
Knitting sitting where the necklaces fall gathering up the shiny things to g… who bite them hoping for sugar
Two roads diverged in a horrid woo… and sorry I was to be there at all… Two roads, night fallen, there I… (would it have been thus if I’d be… under a thunder clouded pall.
It’s a lovely gloomy day. Come, my dear, come out and play. The shadows gather on the lawn And whisper that the sun is gone And never will come back.
In nightmares I am alive Such a terrible fragility I can’t remember now How I stood that pain— How sweet was your rescue
Landlord, said I, there are bats… Landlord, said I, I confess that… You’re a good caretaker, neither s… I’d be much obliged for a fence to… An electrified fence would be nice…
I denied the clock stopped ticking… I denied the coldness grew. I denied the floorboards creaking. I denied the ghost of you. I placed no hope in spirit writing
A predator in tie and tails The sea of matrimony sails But sails Alone. When asked where is your better ha…