Even with all the ghosts
and presumed apparitions
even with those returning from the dead
to eat the flesh from our bones.
Even with the possibility of a
modern-day Jack the Ripper
or even just going to the movies
nowadays, real scary stuff is
closer than you think.
It's so close, with you all the time
never leaves, like gum on your shoe
and it's filled with the scariest stuff
imaginable. You can't empty it out
like stinky garbage or throw it away
like old shoes you don't want anymore.
It knows how to conjure ideas,
thoughts, pictures, all of them not real
and if you're not careful, vigilant
in your own fiction
you might think they are.
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