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Grotesque
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Our fiction is not merely in flight from the physical data of the actual world…it is, bewilderingly and embarrassingly, a gothic fiction, nonrealistic and negative, sadist and melodramatic – a literature of darkness and the grotesque in a land of light and affirmation…our classic [American] literature is a literature of horror for boys
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The Karmic Heimlich Manoeuvre by Stewart Stafford
A gargoyle’s face of stone,
Grimacing back at me,
Each wrinkle a flagellant scar,
From a Caesarean decree.
Denial’s chant, the siren’s call,
Jockeying to ride meeker backs,
Perpetrators and their victims,
Fallen bodies upon the tracks.
Deep slash from a traitor’s blade,
Gatecrasher from a coroner skit,
Staggering down the Via Dolorosa,
Guiltiest choking on a peach pit.
Then karma’s trapdoor gives,
The past never a partner barred,
Hubris’s caw
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