From then on the urchin creature was abandoned
and he moved down the mountainside ever less a man than beast
within the valley of the spires he made his lair
where the glow of the city would affect his hunting the least
his photograph was long since down from the wall
when a special report went out over the Broadcaster
a boy’d been found up on Municipal Road 89
with a vile set of wings grafted onto his arms
divine amateur investigation
in the report the boy said he’d been dragged from his bed by a fat man with a face like a full moon
to a cave in the mountains littered with little clothing and poorly made surgical tools
his thin lips had implored the boy to rejoice in his respite from humanity’s curse
and to travel down in to the valley of spires to understand how he wasn’t the first
Cracking compilation of unreleased songs from punk and garage bands in support of the recent Ghost Ship fire in Oakland. Bandcamp New & Notable Dec 15, 2016