Beloved reader, I leave you now with a tale penned by the Abbe du Coulmier, a man who found freedom, in the most unlikeliest of places: at the bottom of an inkwell, on the tip of a quill. However, be forewarned, it's plot is blood-soaked, it's characters depraved, and it's themes... unwholesome at best. But in order to know virtue, we must acquaint ourselves with vice. Only then can we know the full measure of man. So come... I Dare you... Turn the page...
To The Reader...
Stupidity, delusion, selfishness and lust
torment our bodies and possess our minds,
and we sustain our affable remorse
the way a beggar nourishes his lice
Our sins are stubborn, our contrition lame;
we want our scruples to be worth our while
how cheerfully we crawl back to the mire:
with few cheap tears washing our stains away!
Satan Trismegistus subtly rocks
our ravished spirits on his wicked bed
until the precious metal of our will
is leached out by this cunning alchemist:
the Devil's's hand directs our every move
the things we loathed become the things we love:
day by day we drop though stinking shades
quite undeterred on our descent to Hell!
Like a poor profligate who sucks and bites
the withered breasts of some well-seasoned trull,
we snatch in passing at clandestine joys
and squeeze the oldest orange harder yet.
Wriggling in our brains like a million worms,
a demon demos holds its revels there,
and when we breathe, the Lethe in our lungs
trickles sighing on its secret course.
If rape and arson, poison and the knife
have not yet stitched their ludicrous designs
onto the banal buckram of our fates,
it is because our souls lack enterprise!
But here among the scorpions and the hounds,
the jackals, apes and vultures, snakes and wolves,
monsters that howl and growl and squeal and crawl,
in all the squalid zoo of vices,
one is even uglier and fouler than the rest,althoug the least flamboyant of the lot;
this beast would gladly undermine the earth.
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In dimness mixed tears with brew
Dreams were painted with scrambled view22 lines, 13 comments, October 3
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Melancholic performance with a symphony of masquerade audience
Utopian winter blasted passion on stage of wine with seductive glance7 lines, 16 comments, October 3
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what a goddess with such cruelty
Painting rainbows with vanity19 lines, 20 comments, August 15
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… Just whisper and I will memorize
every move you that you make are led by my eyes...just glance and I will bring heaven to thy feet22 lines, 30 comments, August 10
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A shame it is when fear conquerNumb the tongue from an honest answerDrives the lover to lie and actHe is a coward and that's a factCareless12 lines, 19 comments, August 10
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