To: Uncle Stevie, King of Horror
From: Naomi Gold, a fan 🖤
Carrie’s hormonal,
vengeful bloodshed needed some
puberty blockers.
Ben’s tiny hometown’s
got a big problem, like most—
to live there’s draining.
Danny: psychic child.
Jack: alcoholic writer
who’s failing to write.
Plague worse than Covid.
Randall Flagg, sorcerer
as bad as Fauci.
Charlie’s exposing
government corruption; she’s
gonna burn it down.
Big, rabid doggo
terrorizes Castle Rock, Maine.
Cats make better pets.
Arnie’s an incel
who restores a classic car
that drives him crazy.
Childhood trauma must
be confronted, or It haunts you
quite cyclically.
***
My haiku book reviews.
This collection is the dark one.
I did a light one in praise of my favorite childhood books here:
Fun fact: ‘Salem’s Lot was once King’s favorite book he’d written. It is dedicated to his daughter, Naomi.
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