Exorcist Silhouette from Convalescence (2025) by Stephen Hero

Your exorcist silhouette
Waiting at the window
Your bag of tools, the crucifix
Your skeletal voodoo shakers
Come to fix your possessed daughter
Who wishes you’d called first
And not just arrive
With your bottle of curses
Out come the books, out come the cursives
Read to me read to me dissolve the ghoul

Exorcise your own demons
You whisper to the bed
As I disrobe
Settling in with my nighttime rancour
Before starting in with the head spins
And see where it goes, see where it takes me
This rage, this bed, these unforgiving sheets
This rage, this beast, this tongue twisting epic

Talk the cure, please read to me
Your softness soothes anxiety
Hold the book taste the words
Whisper them in my greedy ear
You take the parts, give them voice
The day’s hell becomes
Just castles and peasants
Giants and wizards
Defeated by witches
A brutal killer
Beheads a king
Babe I'm in

(You start)
Orpheus travelling underground
To find his lost love
Don't look back, we shout together
But he’s caught her in the rearview mirror
And as his head spins and his exorcist grins
The back seat’s full of face-pulling demons
Beckett laughs, Beckett sighs
Waiting for the punchline
Beckett laughs, Beckett sighs
Waiting for the punch
You laugh

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