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trick question (20170326)

March 26, 2017March 26, 2017 crow7 Comments

a basilisk will hatch
from the egg of a rooster
laid at midnight
during a full moon

venomous and full of spite
it can kill with a single glance

which is to say,
do you have any pictures
of your father
and when were you born?

Posted in PoemsTagged art, artist, basilisk, cockatrice, creative writing, doom, evil, poem, poet, poetry, rooster, write, writer, writing

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