Diamond (Cut) In the Rough

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Slithered invitation
with diamond-cut
vendettas.


Sellswords carved
         carnival sideshow
    smiles


darting buttress
eyes commence
a lust for                                   fire
sang the bird:


conjecture cockfights
a finer company~
requisite quisling
dangles headfirst~


boiling leather
weathers
a tomb of
elbow room.


Laugh & dream
of head & hole.


Billed hourly
in barb wire
      peckerwood,


a red fist beseeching
a black tongue ballast.


Heavy machines
groan & crimp.


Overdone
underboss
corking brain.


Erstwhile dreams
        eye pardoned blade
   through hardened pains…

slithering treacherous,
a diamond-cut
vendetta.