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Welcome to the Dark
Welcome to the Dark
By jfarrell
Roll up! Roll up!
Right here;
Is this seat comfortable enough?
Please keep your arms, legs and head in the car.
Are you ready? …. twinkling, charming, innocent smile
…... (whispered) Let’s go!
….(with a hushed, suppressed excitement)
Ladies and Gentlemen, let me thank you for choosing Jim’s Tours,
My name is Jim and I am your tour guide tonight.
But, enough about me, you’re here for Dark;
Hope you’re not screamish :)
On your left, police tape, long dead baby in the attic;
Look right, rapist uncle, lying dead with his throat cut;
Left, just under the bridge, a terrible ghost
This is where my mum should be hanging;
But she’s not dead. Yet.
…..tour guide collapses, but quickly staggers up, uncertain;
Oh my; wot horror; right next door;
His neighbours, 8 christian souls, innocent and pure;
All with their throats cut and drowned in petrol;
But, not burnt. Yet.
Please DON’T be sick in the car; over the edge please;
Are you sure you want to see THE bedsit? Where it happened?
No, you’re not a sicko - you’re here for the…
Waking middle of the night with a lit cigarette
So close to your eye it stings with the heat.
It’s your turn tonight, in the children’s home, with this wacko;
He’s bored; so, tonight, it’s your turn to burn, again and again;
Arms; legs; chest;
Tell who? My keyworker who is trying to groom me for abuse?
The pornography he’s giving me, suggests he wants more then ‘friends’.
Or, the park behind the library, that summer;
That one day, school holiday;
Playing hide and seek with friends
And seeing what happened to that poor woman.
The punches. The kicking.
…. tour guide takes out walkie talkie;
It’s Jim, get the wake up and cleaning crew again, please
This place stinks of sick
And my tourists have passed out;
Again.
