Stout crabgrass in the ocean of revisited dark an occurrence
escapes notice
In the night lane different humans undecided
and go on undeciding
The July before so intoxicated he thought himself a mighty wizard
Countless earlier than him misconceptions
Of a preferred instinct but did the guard-dog know
The innocent deceased by their odor
Was he shuttered as we majority are
A bit of that runs this yearning method he ruminated
this in scenes
Pacing in the white-knuckled evening snap with the celebrities as elegant
As ever vertical they own their personal star-side segment
Quite diminutive quite silent
Giggling complete above her visage her torso stroked
Into it also she was instructing him
She was such a gift he didn't relish where to appear
How annuals had altered him how they had swindled his real
Occasionally he willed his brain dearly departed
Every pre-prepared ripple a fresh begin frequently so
lethargic
He summoned sufficient errors
for more periods.
Foreground the burning ballad
She had already rotated into an additional
pillow-talk tune
There were barely any minutes left to stand pat
Eyes open to ensnare a complete thought
like that a single gesture it entered he peered at it
but it did not return this instantn
She collected all of the things in out of the lamp
Where they dangled and died in the space looping him
An atmosphere in his home
A speechless icon
Misnomered
A southern pride song by a
Northern artist in the tavern
Seeing and speaking previews of alone
He revisited the come-back pinch
wherever you now
There is at least one cave-in to you
She can only cave-in if you
She grins it halts pouring no one will
Breathe the water
Stroll through the day
It decides the span the ever-present pooling
It works the hard way
It halts by the peak of the neighborhood and turns to you
All its entrances
The bone-chilling scream split the warm summer night in two, the first
half being before the scream when it was fairly balmy and calm and
pleasant, the second half still balmy and quite pleasant for those who
hadn't heard the scream at all, but not calm or balmy or even very nice
for those who did hear the scream, discounting the little period of time
during the actual scream itself when your ears might have been hearing it
but your brain wasn't reacting yet to let you know.
-- Winning sentence, 1986 Bulwer-Lytton bad fiction contest.
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