Flies have taken this perverse asylum Disease has hold where others would not dare Forced confessions - colony of lepers Deathly stench is clinging to the air Footsteps where there should not be a presence Starving voices groaning in despair Sadistic maestro wields the scalpel like a bull whip Erratic technique sprays the wall with blood Cold horizon of unmarked graves Ledger entry - numbered days Laughing shadows - labyrinth eyes Bandaged in a cloak of lies Unwanted visitor, levitates, comes to taunt me Tormented prisoner, no escape, from this haunting Sideshow in this carnival of nightmares Perspiration frozen to my brow Altered with a steady-handed ice pick Fragments of me dripping to the floor Down that corridor to the furnace and beyond Ingested by the smokestack and ejected further on Random rearranging in that crucible of death The shadow of that silo is my final chariot