Shadows Before the Maiming
Shadows Before the Maiming was released in 1999 by Gothic Press. It can be ordered for only
$7 from Gothic Press at 4998 Perkins Road, Baton Rouge LA 70808-3043. Or you can grab it
from a bookstore; the ISBN number is 0-913045-08-X. (Shockingly, I was just informed by the
publisher that they have sold out and the book is now out of print!)
A SAMPLE POEM
Halloween, 1998
Shaved head,
mascara,
black eyeliner &
black lipstick,
wearing my
Shadow Project
t-shirt,
the one with
Rozz holding a
large knife above
a naked girl
behind
swirling veiled
curtains
i cut myself
the blood runs
deep and ruby
covering my arm
it
congeals
in lumps
while some drips
off
people walk
widely
around me as i go
into a bookstore
and buy
Soldier of Fortune
then on to
Tower
to get two new
My Dying Bride
CDs and then
on for Japanese
i might go see
London After
Midnight
at Coven 13
tonight
i might sit at home
and write lousy
poems
i might play with
my
cat and then go
trick people to
death
it's a
freeze
frame
happenstance
reality
of sickness
and i pop
3
Xanax
and fight back
the urge to go
out and
murder the
bitch sitting
in the bank's
parking lot
beside me
1999-2004 Scott C. Holstad
