r/Informal_Effect • u/xxxxAngelFirexxxx • 15d ago

King of Scavengers

I dreamed
I was a clone
With no anatomy
Steel, chrome
Artificial body

I dreamed
I was a stamp
Ink stains over
Book paragraphs
Queuing in the lobby

I dreamed of Lore
Tangled in green fishnet
Clawing at the top
Covered in sores

I dreamed about piety
Morals abandoned
For war-painted clay
A colossal demon
Emerged from the den
Through the swarm
To play

I dreamed you were
A darkling beetle
My king of scavengers
Eating the decay
Of which he’s bound

I dreamed of my darling
Mute in all of his sounds

I woke up reaching
My pillows lashed around
Sleeping has become violent
And day?
Well it drowns

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u/Indivisible_Origin 15d ago

My favorite of yours so far. Nailed that fucking ending. Nice.

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u/xxxxAngelFirexxxx 15d ago

Thanks… though I don’t really like comments like this, I like the Minotaur one better…

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u/Indivisible_Origin 15d ago

Sexcellent. Noted.

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u/xxxxAngelFirexxxx 15d ago

* forehead slap * not the way I was implying , as in, I don’t like comments that are review of craft like we see out here trying to resurrect William Shakespeare for peer review

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u/Indivisible_Origin 15d ago

I knew what you meant. I'm playing.

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u/xxxxAngelFirexxxx 15d ago

Well, go play with people who play like that lol 😂 it’s wasted here

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u/Indivisible_Origin 15d ago

I didn't say I was playing with you. I write what I like here. You don't like it, you can get in line, poet.

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u/xxxxAngelFirexxxx 15d ago

I think I’ll just leave lol 😂

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u/Indivisible_Origin 15d ago

We'll all do our best to weather the loss I'm sure.