The horror crawls in toddlers’ scrawls
And oozes through the pores of lovers;
The dark rot bleeds through desperate needs
That Alzheimers undiscovers.
Roll, thunder, roll, boom like the heartstrings failing,
And mumble, mortals, mumble, quailing, quailing, quailing.
the Daily Whale
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