The Loony Bin : In Surreal and Deviant Mode

One night I dreamt

I was in a place

Where all the people smiled.

They came bearing gifts

And then took me for a ride.

We went to a banquet.

I ate the food offered,  plate after plate.

I  drank the wine before me.

I danced to  brisk music. 

Then I found too late

The food had worms, wriggling

The wine was spiked with hemlock. 

All the people had shadows

Each wielding knives

Wildly prancing to the music

Screeching eerily off-key.

All  were watching

With glacier eyes

And no longer hiding

Their sinister smiles.

I thought it a strange nightmare

Until I saw on the floor

Dark blood oozing
A plucked eyeball staring widely

And my heart

Stabbed then butchered still quivering. 

I woke up dying

In every possible way I can
My mouth wide open in a silent scream

Then with relief I realized

OMG!

I was in the loony bin.

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- Ariel Murphy