Dinner is Served
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Spiders, Snakes
Roaches, Bats
Crows, Ravens
Vultures, Bats
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Scritch, scratch
Crawl, slither
Rasping tongues
Gnawing hither
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A wooden box
Turned pine table
Dig with mandibles
A sinewy staple
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Skin sloughed
Bones cracked
Rotten carcass
By insects sacked
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Creepy crawlies
For dinner guests
Meal served
After death
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All the same
Rich or Poor
Feeding worms
At Death's door
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Neath dirt
Piled above
A king's feast
No need to shove
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Don't forget to clean your plate
A last bit of gristle to wet that whistle
That or...
Up the smoke stack
About the Creator
Andrew C McDonald
Andrew McDonald is a 911 dispatcher of 30 yrs with a B.S. in Math (1985). He served as an Army officer 1985 to 1992, honorably exiting a captain.
https://www.amazon.com/Killing-Keys-Andrew-C-McDonald-ebook/dp/B07VM843XL?ref_=ast_author_dp
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Comments (4)
Nailed it! I am definitely choosing cremation now.
I wanna serve all that to the people I don't like. Hehehehhehe. Loved this!
Yeep! Haha.. what a way to describe this.
This was fun and macabre and gross and great 😁