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IMMODEST ACTS
Craig Leaf
these is no living thing so unhappy in its state
paranoid writhing in unfit skin
schizophrenic mass
why would man be so obsessed with a creature so grotesque
as man we earn to want desire, zest, so heedlessly
pride nor pity fear nor ability nor any mortal thing
know
distract you from your zealous fume
therefore to earth you are not bound
more by pure life than fire is your
what has strange nature ever taught us
and what might we learn from her decree
o madame nature makes a queer mistress
concinnus duumvirate sagacious and kef
who wholly benevolent
and unconcerned with human civility
nor aggrieving our plush formality
O laughing flower of sweet night
from what silicon paradise did you long bid return
where in day you make reckoning of a sunny dell
when in wind skyward swell light on weeping wings forlorn
sweeping slight anon with flutter fan the fire
you are earths most combustable beast
you floating spiraling flit instant out
sex lacking lust lackluster but sweet your heart combust
and yet with fanatic fitful zeal upon thy death insatiable
and as an animal mad in heat you'll drive your frail wonderful frame
toward the quick consuming flame wrenching limb and joint torn sinew resolute
in death onward nerves still twitch impaling flesh still more scorched the burnt hair up one leg and down the other in wire if your duty is denied you effete,
strange fixed suicidal. beet your brittle bones and petal wings writhing in puss and bile
upon the flame momentary writhe and spasm and
soon consumed into a wisp of oily air and dust of carbon.
Fantom of the soul
why maggot writhe and feed
odd quadruped and fur tactile
infant glutton huge rolling
set to the task of encasement silk tomb home made womb
your strange bulbous organs devour
bloom becoming plume into a delicate aired flower
Craig Leaf has published 2 more terrible poems since joining on 30/11/99. Read more of Craig's terrible poetry at the anthology. Here are three of Craig's latest works: