Morpheus
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(07-01-2017, 05:57 PM)just mercedes Wrote:  Memories -
bottled delusions
tumbling into my blood
down funnels of glass.  ...bottled > tumbling > funnels sounds lovely. I'm assuming that this is describing a morphine (or opiate) drip

Their honeycomb doses ..didn't get 'honeycomb' - I thought they'd be bulk standard plastic cylindrical bottles..?
hold hook fittings
and they’re greasy, with ‘Daily’
screaming from the label.

I take them; morning morphs to ... nice pun (sort of)
evening, enervated, sleepy,
and you're still
near. ...an unexpected ending that reads well.

I crave that opiate,
putrescence slipped into me
disguised. Then I realize: 
You are not
that I am. ... didn't get this last bit....
I was hoping for an allusion to Somnus being the son of Morpheus (or vice versa), if only because I'd prepared it as a trivia question a long time ago.
~ I think I just quoted myself - Achebe
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Morpheus - by just mercedes - 07-01-2017, 05:57 PM
RE: Morpheus - by vagabond - 07-01-2017, 07:59 PM
RE: Morpheus - by just mercedes - 07-02-2017, 05:38 AM
RE: Morpheus - by Leanne - 07-02-2017, 06:36 AM
RE: Morpheus - by just mercedes - 07-02-2017, 07:06 AM
RE: Morpheus - by Achebe - 07-02-2017, 10:03 PM
RE: Morpheus - by just mercedes - 07-03-2017, 05:44 AM
RE: Morpheus - by Radetof.Yahska - 07-05-2017, 08:40 PM
RE: Morpheus - by just mercedes - 07-06-2017, 06:33 AM



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