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deadlightshero

Shish Kabob (Video)

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https://youtu.be/45Nd29LyFhU

Shish Kabob

You're a cactus

Shaming passersby for not offering a hug

But the only things that cling to you are stuck

That's a pike, and that's a corpse

And that's a hangman's tree

You are the weeping willow

You are the wild mob

The executioner, the jury and the judge

And the criticism you fear so much

And those are pieces of me

Cuts of my flesh turned shish kabob

Left behind enemy lines from every time

I had to gnaw off a hand and run

It's hard to love a prickly thing

You are my mausoleum

Where I go to bury myself one slice at a time

You are the living dead that roams it

A starving vampire soaked in my blood

Do you feel haunted by my ghosts?

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Posted Jun 30, 2026, 1:36 AM UTC

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