This Afraid Of Aging Thing Has Gone To Far! Poem by Ted Sheridan

It was almost noon and this Ghoul's gout was hungry
Gangrene's stomach was growling tumultuously
He must feed or start losing important pieces of his own flesh
to the decaying patience of a most nefarious disease
Decrepit and partially castrated by his arch enemy Time
He demandingly so took a big toothless bite
of the Virgin's youthful recipe for longevity.
As is customary for the sacrificing of human life___
His obedient wife had prepared this meal just for him
In that he had to vomit his previous dinner of a sewer rat
they had found passed out behind the mortuary's curtains
The virgin girl was drugged and lying motionless as in death
She seemed to taunt him with her silent laughter
Her life force would be needed to heal his abscessed sores
He could hear her erotic whispers___
She was having a last laugh on him
As his shriveled scrotum and gums looked for but one gonad
to share this power lunch with him
But even cockroaches weren't hungry today