Shratt came on limping

obsessed

he tried to run down a little girl

and there was a drag of pain

in his left

kidney

**********

horror

**********

he signed checks with Donovan's name

and made mad love with Donovan's woman.

poor Shratt!

warped and sucked by desert wine

raped by the brain of that monstrous man

shadowed by his legless shadow

Shratt, driven by a thing

(you know about that Thing, don't you?)

in an electric tank:

(AMPS-AMPS-AMPS-AMPS-)

demented paranoia

from "BEYOND THE GRAVE! !"

but the tragedy

was Shratt -oh,

I could weep for Shratt.