Came to Nawlins for education. Got more’n I bargained for—Voodoo & vampires. Ran—but the Crescent is a seductress. Scribed by @derickijohnson f288e5e5
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If it was
So simple
But Her call
I can’t resist
No promised gold
Nor #happiness
Will keep me
From this tryst
TheCrescentCity
Luvs me
I burn
Beneath Her thrall
I’d fear she wud
Luv me to death
But I’m undead
After all
I see myself
As powerful
But weak
Beneath Her shawl
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HAPPY ANNIVERSARY @InThePantheon 🏆♥️ What a wild ride it’s been♥️🏆
From all the Gods, Goddesses, Titans,Primordials , Muses and mythical creatures within and beyond the Mortal Realms ; We Collectively Thank you mortals for your Support👏🏾👏🏾
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Abandoned church
A poisoned pond
What is there
Not to like?
It calls
A broken part of me—
A dark hall
In my psyche
Not only
Will I crash that church
I plan to stay
Around
And let
The demon in me
Set up house
And live unbound…😈
#horror
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Billy “Goat” Cox retweeted
From my position I could see people’s backs. I sighed, knowing that those ahead of me were most at risk on this #dice_ship. I could see others looking to the sky. When it appeared we all gasped in dread. The guy on the toy horse was toppled, cast aside. Who would be next. #vss365
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he left
#trauma a bomb
thrown over his shoulder
keep high achieving
believing it’d be
leaving once I’m older
trauma fog breathed in
heart fast beating
long past beatings
till EMDR
changed toxic smoulder &minds signposts
banished taunts
of trauma fog haunts
vanished ghosts
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Billy “Goat” Cox retweeted
I regard
Banality
& cults
Of personality
With heavy heart
So weighted
Down
By a dark finality
As I sit here on
My brownstone stoop
& watch that World
Go by
It is plain
We are a’dying
But cannot compute
The *Why?
It’s our #spirit
Sadly flagging
Cuz we can’t
See Eye2Eye
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Billy “Goat” Cox retweeted
My little sister is in the churchyard, but my grandmother’s table still bears the marks from her fork. The tears of my mother have gummed the varnish, and in the #grain I see the breath of the god who was my father. I lay down my head and listen to the walnut tree.
#vss365
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Billy “Goat” Cox retweeted
Here to hunt
A werewolf
I await
Rise of full moon
Shivering
I grasp my bow
For conflict
Coming soon
But
I fall asleep
& do not wake
Til morning #light
Wake naked
By a dead fawn
Its corpse
A grisly sight
Clench
My bloody hands
In horror
As I ken my plight
#vss365 #SlamWords e4
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Billy “Goat” Cox retweeted
My daughter has
A creepy doll
We cannot
Give away
We locked it
In a toy box
But She doesn’t
Seem to stay
Our dog
Is apoplectic
And at Her
He snarls and brays
She’s made
Of haunted
#Oleander
I found out today
Will someone
Come & get this thing?
I’m desperate—
WILL PAY!
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Billy “Goat” Cox retweeted
Be my dilly queen, he sings, madcap little jay with a clover crown. She toddles after him, all baby burbles and fat little fast legs, before Nonny even misses her.
They find a doll in her dress, covered in scarlet leaves, three days later. The Dilly Queen reigns still.
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Billy “Goat” Cox retweeted
She tastes like lemonade, sweet and sour, and like lemonade, the more I drink, the more I crave. Salt and sugar, summer sweat and sweet kisses. A gust of wind, the leaves sigh, and she is gone, but her flavor lingers.
#BraveWrite
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Billy “Goat” Cox retweeted
It’s true
That Mary Mantis
In a pique, kicked Marvin out
Her bug boyfriend
Unsuitable
To spark the widow’s heart
But all is not
Bad news for Marv…
He kept his head, for starts
#Transient
Mantis love games
Tend to follow fatal arcs🤷🏾♂️
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Billy “Goat” Cox retweeted
Summer clouds rush down to wrap the woods in a wild gray embrace. I don't want to go, they whisper roughly, I don't mean to go.
Winter tugs, and they hold more fiercely still. Remember me, their tears pour in rivulets beneath the bark. Remember summer.
#ForHelena
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RT @derickijohnson: Watched
A massive #cyclone
Shamble cross
A dusty plain
Ground is cracked
& thirsty,
If it could
It’d cry for rain
Clo…
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Billy “Goat” Cox retweeted
Round belly, bloodstained thighs, and bared breasts: I am no daughter of Athena, but hand in hand with Hecate I go on her silver path, pulling sisters from the darkness. Wailing eunuchs clutch themselves in our wake.
#horrorprompt
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Billy “Goat” Cox retweeted
Literary Archaeology
Probably just a broken bit of shell, but it looks like a ‘quake-crumbled pillar from a tiny sea temple.
I shall keep it and write its histories.
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Billy “Goat” Cox retweeted
A click, a whirr, and the dream repeats. He knows he's supposed to believe, but the phantom electrodes on his skull itch like poison ivy. Still, he follows the rote plot: knots his tie, kisses his wife, goes to work. One day he'll wake up & rip the wires away.
#horrorprompt
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RT @derickijohnson: #Pillar of society
Premier of propriety
Least it’s what
His flock thought
Til shown
His dark impiety
Caught
Old Pasto…
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Billy “Goat” Cox retweeted
All loose bones & slippy fur, an ash-covered kitten squeezes from beneath the crumbled concrete & out onto the street. A would-be rescuer snatches it to his breast, desperate for small joys in a world of great horrors. Later, he will pick bone shards from debris.
#horrorprompt
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