" BLOODY LOVER'S HALLOWEEN "

I followed a trail of blood
Into the basement of her lover's reaction
I found tortured souls
In a strange ferment of dissatisfaction
The festering hatred of a cult-like faction
Blown disproportionately outward
Into a taste for human flesh
Where love between them didn't mesh
But co-mingled
Like cannibalism and hedonism
Bubbling like liquid cocaine
Then bottled into bloody champagne
For the celebration
Of their very first date
Where they ate liver's and foreskin
With semen-dipped Easter eggs
Because,
For them Halloween became
A VERY holy day
And love's most evil way
To consummate
Their fermenting
Dissatisfaction...

Tony Taylor   (Chicago)