The Rue Morgue Affair

Ghoul fluorescent tubing
Grovelling fetid Iris
Holiday overtime
Bent city eyelids
Night gladness!
Blanch tiled chrome
Shrill tawny sole
Sliding too swiftly,
Through the mop swirls
And daylight dust
Swept thorough in haste.

Mantis frame into throbbing
Throughout the dawn
Alone into murmur
Detergent aromas
Chlorine lips!
He paws at the draw
Dinner plate steel
Shiver bulbs waver,
Gruel and grope grimly
Gutter leg and thigh
Quick kissed not trembled.

Stainless terracotta flesh
Kept assured gradually
Always chill bower
Enduring fastness
Slithers out enshrine!
Girlish cobalt face
Burble glum eye
Opal for no reason,
Masticated interminably
Into sculptured irk
Shared smirk of the dead.

Quiver lip and hair follicle
Warm lips pert caress
Sincere ever lure,
To her lascivious
Rue morgue pallor,
Adore into abhor
Frigid ashen flora;
Wilt guilty harbinger
Rose from yawning foam
Thud not, heart conveys not.

Grip saddened glib breast
Mature cerulean meat
Wafers too soon,
Covetous wraith limbs
Stiff corpse complies,
Entices his praise
Scent a copse of curls;
Hands rebuke no refusal
Never blood to gush bloom
Prolonged tissue warming through.

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