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Tuesday, 20 October 2020

October 2020 -- A whole Heap of HORROR -- No 20

 To see the amazing artwork, by Crystalwizard, that inspired this poem you must follow this link to Bewildering Stories.  You'll love it! And if you want to find some other of my titles that interest you, you can browse them by clicking my name at the bottom of that page for poems, stories long and short and even a novella! A Genie in a Jam which is actually a whole heap of laughs. 😃 


The Last Laugh

by Oonah V Joslin


The skeleton told all the flesh off its bones;
laid its whole life bare
till there was no story left in the book.

The rat sat patient as a friend
because, as every rat knows,
every tale must come to an end.

Fleshless, the bone that reads the empty page.
In deadlock now the two of them engage
eyeball to eyeball.

The rat has a hungry look.




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