Lunatic Candy



Cutting veins
Explosions of red
Growing pains
Lunatic candy

Insomniac night tears
Feverishly fondled fears
Tearing at the flesh
Lunatic candy

Rinse, rewind, repeat
Hell’s hellish heat
Slowly growing cold
Lunatic candy

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A dark, experimental piece

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Submitted by IzzyMG on August 15, 2024

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Scheme axaB ccxB ddxB
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 223
Words 36
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4

Israel M. Gonzalez

 · 1993 · Quebec

Author of two published poetry collections: A Voice Cried Out In The Concrete Wilderness and Returning From Exile. Avid baseball fan and sports blogger. Electrical engineering grad working in banking. more…

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