The Sinking City - Dan Bull

Dear Mr Reed

Thank you for taking a few minutes

To read this missive riddled in mystery

Conceived to ease your disbelief

This city’s streets are dripping with intrigue

And the stink of conceit

Though dare I say it brings

With it a mystique: a miserable chic

Admittedly I concede

This isn’t your standard work

I am aware it sounds absurd

But that’s the way the candle burns

‘Til dampened by the putrid pusillanimous manner

The ancient propaganda works

But excuse my lack of good manners

Call me Johannes Van Der Berg

Welcome to our town

You look as if you could use a drink

Bring along those sorrows you can’t drown

You can swim or you can sink

What do you think?

What do you think?

Welcome to our town

You look as if you could use a drink

Bring along those sorrows you can’t drown

You can swim or you can sink

What do you think?

Welcome, welcome, welcome

To the parochial local of Oakmont

Home of the hopeless down and outs

Other towns around us don’t want

Resting place of castaways

Forsaken and forgotten

Lost, adrift amidst the rotten bits of flotsam

Which have washed up

It’s a sodom for the sodden sods

Whose sullen souls are softened

By the soothing sounds of sirens' sighs

Rising up from rock bottom

The place lies on ley lines

The veins of ancient bloodlines

That flush away the sacred flesh

To make way for the flood times

The antediluvian realm of Cthulu

Is answering to a new axiom

Where anchovies — humans sans sanity — loom into view with clarity

The Pantheon tell terrible parallel parables

And are washing away any arable land

Unbearable and incomparable pain

No normal mortal can even stand

Welcome to our town

You look as if you could use a drink

Bring along those sorrows you can’t drown

You can swim or you can sink

What do you think?

What do you think?

Welcome to our town

You look as if you could use a drink

Bring along those sorrows you can’t drown

You can swim or you can sink

What do you think?

Welcome to our town

You look as if you could use a drink

Bring along those sorrows you can’t drown

You can swim or you can sink

What do you think?