Black Boot

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  1. barb
    a point facing the main point making an arrowhead or spear
    It stuck in a barb wire snare.
  2. vampire
    a corpse rising at night to drink the blood of the living
    If I've killed one man, I've killed two-- The vampire who said he was you And drank my blood for a year, Seven years, if you want to know.
  3. cleft
    a long narrow opening
    You stand at the blackboard, daddy, In the picture I have of you, A cleft in your chin instead of your foot But no less a devil for that, no not Any less the black man who Bit my pretty red heart in two.
  4. ghastly
    shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
    You died before I had time-- Marble-heavy, a bag full of God, Ghastly statue with one gray toe Big as a Frisco seal And a head in the freakish Atlantic Where it pours bean green over blue In the waters off beautiful Nauset.
  5. statue
    a sculpture representing a human or animal
    You died before I had time-- Marble-heavy, a bag full of God, Ghastly statue with one gray toe Big as a Frisco seal And a head in the freakish Atlantic Where it pours bean green over blue In the waters off beautiful Nauset.
  6. recover
    regain or make up for
    I used to pray to recover you.
  7. stake
    a strong wooden or metal post driven into the ground
    There's a stake in your fat black heart And the villagers never liked you.
  8. dozen
    the cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one
    My Polack friend Says there are a dozen or two.
  9. clear
    readily apparent to the mind
    The snows of the Tyrol, the clear beer of Vienna Are not very pure or true.
Created on Fri Dec 09 09:21:19 EST 2011

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