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Power Rat Trap

Posted by By Michael Arnzen November 16, 2003Posted inGorelets: Unpleasant Poems

eyes charred as burnt raisins
steaming tongue dangles pink
as the shocked straight rattail
poking out of the puffed grey muff
still statically charged
with murder

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