the monster is dead
I saw it on the news
a rare glimpse of streaming media
first in my peripheral
and then in full view
I didn’t want to see it
it was a mistake
—now something I’m unable to take back
I’m not sure what I’m doing
living amongst
all these killer monsters
some successfully hunted down & dead
but the far majority eerily humanlike
& free to roam the planet
july two thousand twenty-three
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demons are real.
very much so