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Call: EROS OF NIGHT AND BLOOD
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Response: Mad is a Madman, Crooked his Melos
By JOE PRYCE
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I know my mind is mazed, twinned realms disputing place That work now to employ but one legerdemain New to their repertoire; and intuition hints That worlds so long discrete have matter-melded so That night and day, known always as far-sundered realms, Became the same huge arrased madhouse, for So deftly have the threads been interwoven that My dream and waking are but fabrics fused By cruel craftsmen who'd devise such gadgetry So that their lunacy could earn bored Satan's coin. Then with low cunning they have left me for the rats.
Madman's Song: O I know all about black stars Those dank demented orbs that ride And roar about the cosmos more Insane than you and I, bright bride. How wondrous that Orion should Get back to me so toute de suite When proud Antares was so good To boost up Yuletide's fiercest heat. But that's enough of toys and tots For what is bubbling here inside Is imagery entwined in knots More taunting and more snigger-snide Than bleeding gums, lice-laden toe. For even midst such savage woe, Telluric filth, and chthonic mire I only dream of plunging, lo! Into that inky mink's hell-fire And then to consort with you till Enfin you're just as mad and ill- When doom arrives and makes knock-knock- I'm on!-"who's there? Good greeting, Sire!"
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