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Palpable Menace: A Poem

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May 05, 2026
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Palpable Menace

by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole

With palpable menace I thee enlard,
An aura bequeathed by this wizard’s shard,
Found in a crevice, worked up from below,
Infernal regions which japing imps know;
Fat fleshy construct, from corpses made whole,
Each stolen piece, though mismatched, has its role,
The bald, bawling …

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