Compound Carrion

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Lady in search of peppermint

And sweetmeat

Instead found eyeballs

And rattlesnake hamburger

When she followed the fireflies

To the moonlight schoolhouse

Where the supergiant throwbacks skateboard

She was seeking homemade popcorn

A slice of shadyside honeydew

A sweet morsel of honeycomb

Instead she found an overabundance

Of undercut forefingers

In the underground household

Of the underage bootstrap babysitter

And the weekend watchmaker

With his supersensitive, supersonic pacemaker

And the lifeline, lifeblood keyhole on his forehead

Somehow the sunbathing superwoman found herself in the supernatural underbelly

Behind the bookshelf in the bookstore belonging to the bookmobile bookkeeper

While looking for the washroom in the firehouse

Where she sought a ballroom friendship with the supercool fireman

Her bellbottom daydreams now in upheaval

Her dishpan hands clasp the newspaper

Where she seeks the carefree undercurrent

Along the moonbeam superhighways

Once a moonstruck firecracker

With a crush on a sweetheart schoolboy

She instead found beneath the moonlight

One too many a hookworm playboy

The afterimage of the life that could have been

Reflects mockingly in her stoplight eyeglasses

Everything has been a comedown from her tailspin pinup dreams

So she orders shortbread takeout

And climbs warlike to the housetop

Her tailcoat flapping like a skylark in the wind

On the sunroof in the sundown

She watches the watchman in the watercolor watchtower

The downbeat wastewater waterlogs the waterfowl below

She walks down to the woodshop

To say goodnight to the waxwork scarecrow

She adjusts his sunray bowtie

Before stepping onto the centercut turntable

A blowgun to the forebrain

Nothing to forewarn the foregone horseman in the forecastle foreground

On the moonlit grassland

Her foredoom was foretold

Her washrag fallen in the rainwater

Flows downstream to the uptown washhouse

Where the cardstock newsman reports as an afterthought

The death of nobody and nothing

~Cie and Opal~

This went much further than we ever imagined it would!

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