In the standard Bicycle deck
Three in thirteen may produce a face
One in thirteen may produce an ace
Not so in this joker’s deck
The odds are stacked
There’s no safe bet…
Between magic tricks and icebergs…
From The American Heritage Dictionary:
scare·crow (skâr′ krō′) ►n.A crude figure set up in a cultivated area to scare birds away.
From Ethan’s Mental Dictionary:
scream·crow (skrēm krō′)►n.A crude figure set up by the uncultivated area of a psycho’s mind to scare voices away.
Time flies
Miles melt
And I am rich beyond my dreams
At least, when we’re together
To me, that’s how it seems - rAveNswAn
...Sue Nami
She takes me out like a wave
No need for a life ring
Not looking for a save
Just wanna go down
Drown in a flood of memories
Of me and Sue
Of me and Sue Nami...
- rAveNswAn
Need to give more than I take
Not to is a big mistake
It leads to longer songs
Give more to right the wrongs
Give more for shorter songs
Need’s a shorter song - rAveNswAn
…Months have passed
Nothing’s changed in town
But everything’s changed for Sir McKann
He’s molted all they knew of him
More animal than gentleman… - rAveNswAn
I was going for a “Dexter” in the Wild Wild West kinda thing.
I’ve got a map that I can’t read
And a compass that points due Wrong - rAveNswAn
For Rook is Hoke and Hoke is Rook
Such as reflected throughout this book - rAveNswAn
…If someone turned on the lights
In this starless pitch-black dream?
Maybe the falling tree in the near-barren wood
But no one will hear you scream…
Ethan Whipp...the birth of evil, sanity's battle lost.
If it need be alchemy, then alchemy it will be. - rAveNswAn
Prescription for Crow’s Disease
Oh, doctor, I’ve identified
The source of the pain
It has a name
Same as my last name
But no, I’m not to blame
And doctor, what do you prescribe?
Can’t take more of this pain
Need a prescription …
A prescription
Help bring me back to sane…
To Ethan Whipp - “‘Caws’ he ain’t good’n-uff!"...from his father, Albert Cornelius Whipp
I love the lightning and thunder of a good brainstorm. - rAveNswAn
Thank you Chaucer!
I like playing cards…the face cards, the histories, the stories and the styles.
…Then, I place imagination on my palate
All it took was just one taste
The T Uncrossed
Prelude to the chapter The Birth of Evil, Sanity’s Battle Lost in the novel, Through the Kindness of Ravens