Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Worm Shit By Scott Emerson

The cavity where your heart once lied
now cradles a colony of maggots
boiling in frenzied feast

finally giving your life
purpose



 About Scott Emerson: 

Scott Emerson has recently appeared in Year's Best Hardcore Horror Vol. 1, Horror Sleaze Trash, The Rye Whiskey Review, Stranger to Blue Water: A West Virginia Poetry Anthology, and the Chilling Tales for Dark Nights' Horror Hill podcast. From 2010-2016 he served as facilitator for Morgantown Poets, a not-for-profit organization that hosted free literary events in Morgantown WV. 

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