I have bitten the moon,
Silvery flesh stains my lips
And I’ve stars glitterin’ between my teeth.
Need for preparing, have not I.
Like eve, I was hungry-
And so I ate.

Greedily I sunk my canine fangs into
The choicest hunk; how she
screamed!

I took her shine, and held
It prisoner within this eye.
It is mine now, and
I am beautiful with it.

Yet one still shines more brightly…
Damn him, damn unsubtle light that blinds!
My lord, I shall gift you this silver for want of your gold.
To reign the darkened skies with a stolen scepter
And with an all seeing eye is better ‘en fine-
But come dawn, mine own lights
Fade, and I become but the palest rind again.

Imprisoned in the day, eternal rays cruelly melt the stars
And glaze the world with a tepid film.
I laze placidly with my head upon a cloud,
Waiting for him to leave me be.

At a time called dusk, dawn is finally made undone.
The night magic fills me ever more and
Glowing through the mists-
All are drawn to gaze upon my face.
I caress their hearts and savage their innocence
With my penetrating touch.

[I have been bitten by a girl; now I rot in the sky.
My milky blood savagely smeared across the heavens-
A massacre of time. Weep for the clocks and the ticking!
She knows not where the sleeping dust lies hid.
And for revenge, I will never tell her.]

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