The Spoonbill Generator

Free at Halloween

The house was haunted, so they said [Nym]

We decided to investigate [Francine]

We called ourselves 'The walking dead' [Nym]

Once a rock band, but of late-- [Francine]

They'd surely passed their use-by date [N]

The girl was demonized, they thought [F]

She lived alone, down in the cellar [N]

Her head would swivel quite a lot [F]

Which made it rather hard to tell her-- [N]

That Linda Blair was far more stellar [F]

We headed down the creaking stairs [N]

Drawn by a hellish ululation [Francine]

And tip-toed past discarded wares [N]

There was a foul emanation [F]

We'd stumbled on a freak creation [N]

A succubus of rot and stench [F]

Was writhing in a bowl of goo [N]

A veritable ubermensch [F]

Electrified by you-know-who [Beefy]

For reasons that we wish we knew [P]

The door slammed shut, the floorboards creaked [Beefy]

The candles caught a wind and sputtered. [Dassn't Say]

We shuddered at the ooze that leaked [Beefy]

From the walls; and a deep voice uttered [P]

"Break fast with me; your toast...is buttered" [Beefy]

We screamed, and screamed, and screamed again [P]

The stone walls echoed a reply [Beefy]

"A chaaaain a chaaain a chaain a chain..." [Kansas Sam]

A funky rap groove we could not deny [spengler]

We'd heard before, who was it by? [N]


Contributors: Nym, Francine, N, F, Beefy, P, Dassn't Say, Kansas Sam, spengler.
Poem finished: 2nd August 2003.