I believe that everyone who sets about writing in earnest does his work, as a friend of mine phrased it, on something - tea, or coffee, or tobacco."Green Tea" in The Wordsworth Collection of Irish Ghost …

From god-like ferrets, to ghostly doggies, and on (this evening) to a "cursed" & withered simian extremity - our mammalian carnival of horrors just keeps on truckin'.

More than any of the five …

Hewn from the molten plasticks of hell flame it has come. The dread mark that speaks of pain, of pestilence and of putridity. Long hath man (and woman) sought the avoidance of its vile company…its …