Acid Death

by David Frazier:

Drank it down.

The horrible drink,

Burned all the way

From my mouth,

To my stomach.

Acid hydrochloric I think.

Poison liquid in glass bottles

Drops can eat steel plate.

Eating, burning,

Chews a hole thru my belly button.

Something right out of ‘Alien.’

Guts pour out

Onto the floor.

No room for more.

I scream, no one hears.

Force fed liquid death

From my lover.

Used a funnel

To deliver the dose,

Into my vent.

Tied with rope,

Gagged,

Branded by fluid fire.

Slowly death arrives ebony clad.

Dead men don’t move much.

After drinking acid

Essence pours out,

Turns to goo.

All is lost

Can’t do much.

But die and crawl

Into a cold box.