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Wild Things

Wild Things

at 0 dark hundred hour
the witching hour
3 am
I can not sleep

The wild things emerge
From their cages
Shaking off their prison chains

The wild things prance about

giant apes, space aliens, banshees, bats, Bigfoot, centaurs, Cerberus, cheetahs, crows, coyotes, Cthulhu with tentacles, dragons, demons, dinosaurs (raptors and T. rex), devils, dwarfs, gangbangers, gangsters, gangster rappers. Gators, goblins, ghouls, ghosts, giants, giant ants, giant wasps, giant spiders, giant lobsters, gunmen, hellhounds, big game hunters, government bureaucrats, holocausts, imps, Imperial Stormtroopers from Star Wars, naked incubus, leprechauns, jihadis, Lucifer, lions, politicians, mafia made men, ravens, monsters, orcs, reporters, bewitching beautiful yet deadly sirens, Satan, satyrs, snakes, winged monkeys, serpents, special forces soldiers, tigers, werewolves, wolves, witches, warlocks, wraiths, wild things, yeti, and zombies all staring at him. A half-centaur, half-pig monster with two heads–Putin and Trump led the mob.


They attack me
Call me names
Chase me down the dark streets

I run trying to escape them
But they are too many
And soon they have me cornered

They torture me
Until the dawning light
Drives them back to hell

I awake
See my wife
Drink coffee
Thinking I have escaped my fate
For another date

Goth verse is a form based on a dark, unsettling theme without structural requirements, as described and demonstrated in the following links:

https://www.poetrymagnumopus.com/topic/4684-goth-or-dark-verse/