The August Vampeer: Cantos XII-XVI

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The August Vampeer: Cantos XII-XVI

by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole

XII

But before they could adjourn,
And to cheerless homes return,
In the seating there arose,
Of wild eyes and ragged clothes,
With broken nails, and wan skin,
Like a ghost who walks again,
A lady to them unknown,
Onto their good graces thrown,
But alike to…