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79 Words and Perfect Fear

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By Tom BakerPublished 5 years ago 1 min read
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Daffy Duck launched

a tunnel to the sky

--Babel, Babylon, "Intolerance..."

(Legend of 1916)

He gets going through space and time,

straight into the Mouth of God--

He is then sent back

down through his dimensional tunnel,

where he gets caught

in the claustrophobic hold of it.

God sends down a Dyson Ball of solid mud

to strangulate Daffy,

whose face strobes for the viewer in a cryptic,

dough-boy series

of macabre flashes,

looking like a tortured clay animation puppet.

I struggled up a hill

trying to find

TWENTY

additional words with which to complete this

Poem

After being put through literal hell

On the way down....

27, 27, 27, 27, 27...

(It is of singular note that this poem is actually eighty words long. Unless I miscounted. But you need a hundred.)

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About the Creator

Tom Baker

Author of Haunted Indianapolis, Indiana Ghost Folklore, Midwest Maniacs, Midwest UFOs and Beyond, Scary Urban Legends, 50 Famous Fables and Folk Tales, and Notorious Crimes of the Upper Midwest.: http://tombakerbooks.weebly.com

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