The Villainelle
Ghastly faces erase my blithe
Ghastly faces erase my blith
Bleeding breath of stinging nettles
Flitting creepily down my stalwart spine
Wide crept eyes in bitter reminisce
Sorrows even a shadow can't envelope
Ghastly faces erase my blithe
Creeping, mechanized, motionless stump
Visage of a silvery sung mystery
Flitting creepily down my stalwart spine
Well born sailor, borne into distant horizons
Crazed vehemence pressing even farther
Ghastly faces erase my blithe
Spoons ring true in a fallow tune
Eerie shedding the shell of odium
Flitting creepily down my stalwart spine
And upon the slab, reality reeks
Bending light of a prism that nobody could keep
Ghastly faces erase my blithe
Flitting creepily down my stalwart spine
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