ASPHYXIUM ZINE

Thursday, September 14, 2023

Poem: "Cripple Creek" by Tanner Reiss

Cripple Creek
Tanner Reiss, Sept. 9, 2023


Cripple Creek
Cripple Creek
Not a place to seek
Cripple Creek
Cripple Creek
New turns antique
Cripple Creek
Cripple Creek
Not a place to speak

Cripple Creek
Cripple Creek
A place so bleak
Cripple Creek
Cripple Creeo
You make me so weak
Cripple Creek
Cripple Creek
Turn the other cheek

Toil an' trouble triple
Upon your wretched nipple

Without merely a ripple
Make a narcissist humble
Make the scientist gamble
Make the politician stumble
Make the mortician crumble

(Toil an' trouble
Wretched nipple
Narcissist humble
Scientist gamble
Politician stumble
Mortician crumble)
Cripple Creek
Lifeless Colorado
Cripple Creek
Blissless El Dorado
Cripple Creek
Incommunicado
Cripple Creek
What is this?
You should know!
I need not shadow for
Cripple Creek
Though Cripple Creek
Does foreshadow
Horrid horrors
Shadowed over doors
Overshadowed by whores
Draped in erotic steep lore
Raped in hypnotic sleep gore

(Horrid horrors
Overshadowed by whores
Draped in erotic...
Raped in hypnotic...)

Wear it wherever you dare
Everywhere, there, here
Hear the cries of the Styx
Paddle down the River
Such a breeze to shiver
At the whispering breeze

Careful not to freeze
But why? No one to please!
No one who sees
Can bare the seas
Deadended by the trees
Dead ended by the leaves
People quickly leaves
Shit remains untretrived
Cripple Creek is unrelieved
Unable to fucking breathe
Throttled by wretched thieves
Hear her crippling creaks
Screams, chokes, grieves

Cripple Creek
Cripple Creek
A place so bleak
Cripple Creek
Cripple Creeo
You make me so weak
Cripple Creek
Cripple Creek
Turn the other cheek

Cripple Creek
Cripple Creek
Not a place to seek
Cripple Creek
Cripple Creek
New turns antique
Cripple Creek
Cripple Creek
Not a place to speak

Cripple Creek
Cripple Creek
We all live inside
Cripple Creek
Cripple Creek
We all die inside
Crippled Cripple Creek!

(Cripple Creek
Cripple Creek
We all live inside
Cripple Creek
Cripple Creek
We all die inside
Crippled Cripple Creek)

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