From: Elspeth@webtv.net (Elspeth)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: FTSD: Still Death
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 11:07:08 -0500 (EST)
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Lei of lilies, spray of roses
  dying on a window corbel
where a blackbird decomposes,
  keening e'er a frozen warble;

open-eye'd as if awake,
  though the  orbs are dark and dull,
motionless a hanging snake
  out the socket of a skull:

Fleeting clouds of starlight streaming
  silent on a windowsill,
silent trillions' feckless screaming,
  leaving all in darkness still.

Elsie