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Just Like Perfume
He discovered
That like perfume dabbed behind
The ears
And on the wrists
There is dab a little larceny
In most people
When push comes to shove
Claws that are nearly always concealed
Inside soft furry paws
Appear like Switchblade ,
Ripping into flesh and bone.
Keep this information hidden,
There are wolves about
Derek Earl Houghton
Fortunately for you the era
of being “Tarred and Feathered” has passed.
Being “Drawn and Quartered” has also fallen out of favour.
Knowing your grisly past and sadistic leanings
it is not hard to imagine the appeal these rather gruesome,
unapologetic forms of justice once had.
Derek Earl Houghton
While we can sometimes haltingly venture
furtive ideas as to the reasons why marriage works,
the reasons it doesn’t work routinely
present themselves as inscrutable and inescapably
embedded in some primitive genetic hunter gatherer,
kill and eat diaspora of human nature.
Derek Earl Houghton