For this one, you must defend yourself against your invisible killer.
PULP COUPLET V (any gender, late twenties through late life)
Fine. I can't see you
And so I can't flee you.
That potion you took
From our secret notebook
Has worked after all.
We'd both hit a wall
In our work together
Fighting about whether
The work should be tested.
Now your case is rested.
You have disappeared
And so I now fear
You wish me to die.
I wish I knew why.
Did jealousy rule
Our work for the school?
If so, then my bad.
But I'm not your dad.
I didn't abuse you
Nor ever did use you
The way that he did.
But you're not a kid.
You'll answer for this.
No be ready to be pissed.
This formula's cursed
For it has no reverse.
Not yet anyway.
How about I just stay?
Copyright 2016 by Matt Haynes.
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