Illsmouth
I walk through the town
Yet there's no one around
I looked in the hotel,
the general store too
Having to search for the townsfolk
is making me awfully tired
it is making me tired and blue
All niceness in this town is gone
As if some shadow hanging over
has not spared one living person
not noone, not one
The all of a sudden,
running out to sea
I spy a lonely drifter
One who appearred
Appearred right before me
He was ugly and grotesque
of what lineage I do not know
Some half fish half man hybrid
Something made of all the ages woe
I see him briskly running
out to something in the sea
I find myself also running
running out to meet him in the sea
ever so briskly
I do not know what cloud is in my mind
for what it is I cannot tell
but I am briskly running
to my well
my sanctuary
my chamber in the sea
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