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Alphabet Volley

A limerick on the irony of hateful "love."

By CorvusPublished 3 years ago 1 min read

The pastor echoes in the guttural hall

spewing hate-speech called "love" : the cabal

of righteous absolvers

exalting a wake of revolvers

that stain their pulpit with a rainbow rainfall.

sad poetry

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Corvus

Corvus is a kaleidoscope of Gothic word-craft, stuck somewhere within the hurricanes of prose and poetry and wrung out on each page. Find more fragments of the love letter on their website, corvuslove.

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  • Madison "Maddy" Newton3 years ago

    Very powerful and true, well done!

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