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URBAN LEGENDS conspiracy cryptids such as the Jersey Devil and Bigfoot the Loch-Ness Monster meets MothMan in Murder Hornet Mayhem such as never seen before
in a world of Giants, though, let’s look at the minis
cryptids decrypted from the crypt
at the Bunnyman Bridge, sightings of a hatchet wielding psychopath in bloodstained overalls and a bunny suit
terror to smooching couples wary of the Radio
SIGHTINGS
paranormal morality tales or mortality tales
a cautionary between truth and lies, hearsay and told, a micro-narrative most of them circulated orally but can be propagated by any media social or otherwise mysterious flyers or newspaper facsimile
a type of folk-lore
transmission, bridging the mystery of the possible and the impossible—as a friend of a friend lived vicarious elements of Horror and Humor
(Bridges are Key)
Hear Tell, a setting of the uncanny, warning of DANGER
Hearsay the cybernetic spread of creepers and cryptids
where the Bunnyman travels with his hatchet
der GrossMan! the Slender Man who approaches with his Black Car arms and joints distended
while flyers of the faces of missing children accumulate in a cautionary advert against Strangers in Clownsuits
w/or w/out candy that had razorblades inserted or was laced with rat poison that’ll turn your insides to goo or MDMA tattoo stickers w/a blue star or mini-mouse, to Get Kids Hooked
(a murderer)
don’t forget all the Sightings of strange creatures /the City is now swarming with Paranormal Investigators and Reptile Experts with Army Commandos patrolling the sewers with guns and harpoons, some with explosive devices
although Modern, these were Times nearly as legendary and newsprint worthy in new roman, as when the Jersey Devil was Sighted hundreds of times in 1909
the poor lil demonspawn had been the deformed horror of his grandam in the cottage
Rock-a-bye Baby the Reject
that thing bites, she said
and she cast It out into the New Jersey Pines
(now deforested)
Bloody Mary in the Mirror
will be there for you a flash in the mirror
in the vein of your cybernetic brain-meat
the low flicker of waxen flame
to occupy your time
and not to be occupied by it
tagged for recruit
during the “Lights Out” Rumor which was not even an Urban Legend proper where Street Gangs were said to initiate their new recruits by driving around in a car with its headlights off and when the first unassuming motorist flashes him the accustomed signal which is the fatal flash—the new recruit must murder everybody in the car
(Don’t Look Behind You)
There are Still Alligators in the Sewers
Bloody Mirror in the Mary
will be there for you
all in a flash
do you need the bleeding?
of course you can’t hear the bleeding
blinking and thinking
that the Eye would be
Light’s (wide little) Bitch seeking it
pulsing towards it
expulsed towards it seeking rest of tension
a nest
/where baby birds\
Sweet and Hollarsome:
Existence and Exile marked a ? of TIME
but you have to get past the Names of Things
About the Creator
Rob Angeli
sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt
There are tears of things, and mortal objects touch the mind.
-Virgil Aeneid I.462
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