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[This is the complete library of draft poetry by Hayden Veil. Part of it can be found in more refined form in the published works by Hayden Veil, listed below]

Swallows

The bread stuffed into the toaster, then the spread
of butter on cooling… ,
Swivels of honey, imported but sweet as

…

the crunch; the crunch

I uncork the blue bottle

the crunch; the crunch

My love for Bombay Sapphire

as I

duck

& swallow

sweet

Ravens Inbound

Ravens inbound: I watch with horror as they pick your bones clean. I suck on the leftover marrow, ignorant and in bliss. Somewhere deep inside, or far beyond the reality before me, the pickings are ripe for the taking, for a feast of plenty; dreamers unbound knocking on doors unanswered.

Ravens inbound: you watch in horror as they pick your bones clean, then me sucking you dry makes it all converge, the feast of one no longer a fantasy, no longer a note in a paper left by the predecessors. Somewhere deep inside, the picking is ripe for the taking, for a feast of one — knocking.

Ravens inbound: we smelt as we merge under the sky of dreams, under the stars and their protection we linger, we wrap the paper in circles of infinity, begging for their ultimate forgiveness. Somewhere deep inside the answers lie, foreshadowing the world before us. Unforgiven I revert to tossing off, and contemplation.

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Playlist

Before anyone enquiries about my musical taste, these are the last N videos I watched from my curated playlist on YouTube (sorry no links provided but I hope you get the gist of my NYE living room ambiance…)

Epica - Sancta Terra live at Hellfest (2015)

Arch Enemy - Reason to believe

In This Moment - as above, so below

Nightwish - Weak Fantasy (live Vancouver Orpheum)

Arch Enemy - Nemesis (live at Wacken 2016)

Nightwish - Devil & The Deep Dark Ocean Live in Buenos Aires

Within Temptation - Faster

Epica - unleashed

Halestorm - Break In (feat. Any Lee)

Kamelot - Sacrimony (feat. Alissa White-Gluz and Elize Ryd)

Delain - Stay Forever

Amaranthe- Helix

Am I?

Am I beautiful?
Am I caged like your rabbits?
Am I stretching enough?

Am I beautiful?
Am I cuffed like your wh0res?
Am I bleeding enough?

Am I beautiful?
Am I incarcerated?
Am I alive?

Am I beautiful?
Am I still?
Am I?

XOR

Scavenger XOR lover, your heart
never belonged to me, never could
penetrate the thin wall behind the
armour

I wore it for thirty-five years,
unknowingly calling it me, and my, and
the ultimate I

Your scythe of solemn truth, breaking
as you joined the sisterhood, blessed

I found myself heartless — paper thin

stained and longing

You watch me undress.
Our fingers covered in sick
& the stench lingers as we
embrace;
as our
touch disregard our
fattened shapes;
we
embrace &
let the world fade.

You watch me undress; your mirror
like a bra too small, like
a growl too loud, like an orgasm
faked: scattered
throughout infinity.
Our fingers touch, soiled and
wanting, stained and

longing.

Cracked

Put all your eggs in a single basket,
one basket, cushioned
to handle the fall

Worry not of unforeseen days,
place all your chicken in the
same pen;
Leave the door open for the fox
to venture,
to find his partner
Wanting

Put your lighter in the air,
then dream of
two-stroke fumes igniting,
dream of
youth wanting

of your wanting
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