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    Dreams and Dirges
    Dreams and Dirges
    Dreams and Dirges
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    Dreams and Dirges

    By Melanie McCurdie

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    Dreams and Dirges is a compilation written by Calgary based author Melanie McCurdie. Flavored with a unique taste of the macabre in romantic verse and prose, as well as a sometimes-sarcastic look at the darker side of life, death, and love and loneliness, this collection offers a mixture of deliciously dark free form poetry that will make your heart race.

    If you see life through the lenses of a slightly darker pair of rose-colored glasses, this piquant assortment was written for you.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSlayful Stories
    Release dateNov 22, 2016
    ISBN9781540150264
    Dreams and Dirges
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    Melanie McCurdie

    I am a Canadian based writer who resides in Calgary, Alberta and am a Warrior Mom blessed with two challenging boys, Sam 14 and Davey 10.  I am a rabid supporter of Independent Film and Publications, and a horror junkie with a taste for words, and bloodsauce.   Most recently, I was voice talent to The Carmen Theatre Group as Maria Sanchez and I can be seen in The Orphan Killer 2: Bound x Blood, written and created by Matt Farnsworth.

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      Dreams and Dirges - Melanie McCurdie

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      ––––––––

      We all have people who influence us in different ways, some simply by being there.  Those individuals make life sweet as pie.

      As always, for Muse.  Without his sparkly ass, and never-ending shenanigans, I would be lost.

      Foggy McCorrigan, for the friendship, encouragement and always honest responses that I know I can count. Thank you so much. 

      Patti Beeton, Carolyn Graham, Thomas Davis, Amy Kling, Kelly Brandsness, and Rachel Kent-Harris; each one of you brings a special kind of light to my day.  Even if it’s simply a *meerkat* in my direction, it means the world to me. Xo

      Mine

      ––––––––

      Yes,

      once I compared you a summer’s day

      Then you were winsome and light

      Now the darkness has stolen that 

      And replaced it with a different lust

      For life

      For death

      You are my raison d’être

      Be-

      ––––––––

      Lain Beneath

      Once Believed

      Veracity suspect, bewildered

      Every word leaves me bemused

      Should love bedazzle your eyes

      It behooved one to be wary

      Lest you find yourself besotted

      Beguiled by your own yearning

      And left benighted, alone

      Run, Reaper

      ––––––––

      I despise Reaper, currently

      That motherfucker is off

      Polishing his bone or playing

      Peeping Grim through some portal

      The perv.

      Hey!! Bonedaddy!

      Think you could stop rubbing one out

      And do your damned job?

      For once? Instead of dicking about

      Dirge

      ––––––––

      Don’t be too kind to me

      I’m only human and like it or not

      There’s still a heart ticking away in here.

      Worse yet, it feels things and I’m tired.

      Stupid thing,

      it still wants to believe that maybe,

      words aren’t all doggerel and dirges

      secrets and lies and wooful design.

      so, please, don’t be too kind

      I may believe you.

      mothersuckers

      ––––––––

      Hickory duckory

      Fuck, why must you be such a dick?

      If buzzkill had a finger,

      it’d be pointed in your general vicinity

      Is it so difficult to be

      a little less self-aware, maybe?

      Screw your thinly veiled, venomous barbs

      I’m hanging out in drown town tonight

      Let my sorrows sink or whatever

      I’ll smother the mothersuckers.

      Or if I must, I’ll hotbox the cabin

      Leave ’em breathless and

      watch them fly away

      Reboot Juice

      ––––––––

      Another-day/

      Wake-and-die/

      Suffocation-again/sigh/

      It’s-not-ideal-perhaps/

      But-I-embrace-it/why-not/

      Life-is-so-much-simpler/

      -when-you’re-dead/

      Shit-doesn’t-matter-except-the-day/

      And-the-people-in-it/

      Cursed-daystar/hiss/

      Death-goes-on-into perpetuity/

      Mournings-suck-even for-the-departed/

      That’s-why-there’s-coffee.

      Chary

      ––––––––

      You remind me of someone.

      Something says be wary;

      It’s the manner that you carry,

      the method of speech, rings bells

      of the warning variety...

      Stupidly, as the reasoning is not sound.

      There is no cause for distrust –

      Fear can

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