the witch's vengeance, part 2

look upon me as a lost and abandoned creature like a leaf blown in the wind a spark glimmered in the fireplace all his insolence was gone a traitor to good feeling and honour with a desperate melancholy truly a lost and abandoned creature bereft of all high born dignity the very picture of melancholy such is female curiosity and vengefulness the loss of good feeling and honor a light glimmered outside the window with a melancholy glow she despised him utterly as weak as a starved rat the dark prophecies had come to pass such is the wrath of woman like the wind in the trees may you renounce me from that moment the rat ran from the corner insolently surrendering itself i scorn you utterly in your pathetic disguise "thus ends a once proud race" the prophecies have come to pass recognized in spite of your disguise a light glimmered in the window behind her sources: castle of otranto; mysteries of udolpho; a sicilian romance; the old english baron; the monk; emmeline, or the orphan of the castle; melmoth the wanderer; frankenstein; the vampyre, by john polidori; lady audley's secret; run to earth, by mary e braddon; the moonstone; no name.

the witch's vengeance, part 1

a traitor to good feeling and honor as weak as a starved rat such is female curiosity and affectation his body is hidden in some corner looked upon as a lost and abandoned creature the singing of the wind among the leaves may you renounce me from that moment she surveyed him with high displeasure his body was hidden in some corner with a melancholy interest is it insolence thus to surrender myself darkening with prophetic interest recognized in spite of my disguise darkening with a melancholy gloom recognized in spite of my disguise as weak as a starved rat may you renounce me from that moment while i crouch in a dark corner damned for all eternity such is female curiosity and affectation cowering before the flickering fire a light glimmered in the window as she approached the wind sang among the scattering leaves a traitor to all decent feeling cowering in the corner under the window she surveyed him with contempt "so ended the once proud line of the caskers" sources: castle of otranto; mysteries of udolpho; a sicilian romance; the old english baron; the monk; emmeline, or the orphan of the castle; melmoth the wanderer; frankenstein; the vampyre, by john polidori; lady audley's secret; run to earth, by mary e braddon; the moonstone; no name.

up there, part 2

"you think they care anything about you?" they want you and that's that are you saying up there for all you know it's cool up there where they smoke their cigars they don't care they keep you in the dark on purpose and caviar too so what what is caviar anyway? they don't want you to think "what does caviar even look like?" that shows what you know i'm just saying drinking champagne now champagne i can relate to who cares? nobody knows but they want you who knows why i'm just saying they are still up there think about it

up there, part 1

what they tell you is what they tell you drinking champagne they want you watching you and what's that watching you i'm just saying i'm just saying so what that's what watching you all night are you saying are you saying is what they tell you smoking cigars that's what to think smoking big cigars while they watch you and drinking champagne and that's the truth so help me they are up there drinking champagne and wine i'm just saying they want you

epiphany

the boy always be in his buffalo bill jacket he reached for nothing would ever change i have no friends i have no friends the girl in her red cap he suddenly realized "how can you remember all this?" in his buffalo bill jacket the hippie boy he suddenly realized nobody likes me laughing nothing would ever change laughing or at least smiling in his brown buffalo bill jacket in her red cap he suddenly realized nobody likes me alone the can of lima beans the boy alone

a romance of the wilderness

they tugged and tore at each other with countenances pale even to ghastliness they tugged and tore at each other the artifices of his depraved countrymen exceedingly decrepit and infirm you red-eyed devil robbing her fair visage of her single charm with the artifices of his depraved countrymen robbing her fair visage of her single charm "fair as is your outward form, you are foul - infinitely foul" united with a frank and modest spirit a vision of serious duties and little company i sat awhile in perfect silence with the stern joy that a warrior should feel you red-eyed devil as he stands over his fallen foe his countenance pale in his triumph pale as the stars fading behind him on the desolate battlefield i say it's outrageous her fair visage hovered before him i sat awhile in perfect silence with the stern joy that a warrior should feel marked out by her immaculate footsteps not a lively nor a sociable place they tugged and tore at each others hair i sat in perfect silence sources: the power of sympathy, wieland, the last of the mohicans, horse-shoe robinson, nick of the woods, the scarlet letter, the gold bug, miss ravenels conversion from secession to loyalty, mcteague, bartleby the scrivener, the turn of the screw, tom sawyer, the call of the wild

trudy martinelli, spacewoman, part 2

"this is what you always wanted, isn't it?" receding rings of saturn glowing fitfully in the depths of the flattened sun the spasmodic flow of the flat sun jumping jupiter! glowing fitfully let us turn our gaze now outward to the welcoming stars beyond the winking galaxies of smiling suns and sneering saturns and jumping jupiters and venal venuses flowing gently exploding endlessly with suave gravity and undoubted star power o my love with suave gravity nevermore no more beyond mars jupiter