Babalon\u2019s Army<\/p>\n
By<\/p>\n
Jennifer Angelina Petro<\/p>\n
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Children shout children from flung open windows,<\/p>\n
Armies forge invoking demons, hands steady<\/p>\n
On pulled-back bows.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Spit curses, falchions sharp-shooting sparks.<\/p>\n
Mercy inhaled, shouted Desperta Ferro!<\/em> slams echoes<\/p>\n Through backyards, and skulls, and car-lined streets.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Try as you might, you cannot hide<\/p>\n Face down to your phones,<\/p>\n Try as you might you cannot hide<\/p>\n The evidence of what you have done<\/p>\n And what you have failed to do.<\/p>\n Vengeance opens its terrible maw\u2014<\/p>\n Scream, thunder, scream.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Bones will snap, heads be crushed,<\/p>\n Blood revelations will bloom on your walls.<\/p>\n The children will set fire to your beds<\/p>\n While you sleep, while you nightmare.<\/p>\n Stars will fall, skylines will be razed, houses burned,<\/p>\n The reassembled dead will shake off the dirt<\/p>\n And grin grins of sickles and shivs.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Your children\u2019s eyes follow your every move,<\/p>\n Guns trained, triggers pulled, arrows sharp,<\/p>\n Swords aloft, war-paint black as night.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Uncrouch, hands up, heads down, and run.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Slaughter is coming for you.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Babalon\u2019s Army By Jennifer Angelina Petro Children shout children from flung open windows, Armies forge invoking demons, hands steady On pulled-back bows. Spit curses, falchions sharp-shooting sparks. Mercy inhaled, shouted Desperta Ferro! slams echoes Through backyards, and skulls, and car-lined streets. Try as you might, you cannot hide Face down to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[1433,1408,1435,1434,1436],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2184"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2194,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184\/revisions\/2194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}