No hand to scribe the sinking sickness I have seen

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My poem "Plague-Bearer" is now online at Lone Star Stories. Its inspirations were more than one nightmare I had in September and a film I have never seen; it is not dedicated to anyone, which may be just as well.

Ironically, I still have the Cold of the Damned. At least it doesn't involve hemorrhaging. I'm going to bed.

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What film that you've never seen was the inspiration?

Aki Kaurismäki's I Hired A Contract Killer (1990). I ran into an article online which discussed implicit and explicit themes of vampirism in the movie, which made me very curious to see it; I have not yet gotten around to it, but the concept sort of fused with the hemorrhagic dreams and the result was this poem.

Oh, and I should mention that you're very slightly responsible for inspiring my un-Rabbithole Day post. I hope you don't mind that.

Not at all! May I ask how?

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I have not yet gotten around to it, but the concept sort of fused with the hemorrhagic dreams and the result was this poem.

Ah. That's interesting. I'll be curious to hear what you think of the movie and the poem's relationship to it when you do see it.

Not at all! May I ask how?

Well, here is the post. Your post about inflatable decorations roundabouts Hallowe'en was an inspiration for the bit about "the Air-filled Monstrosities which make their Appearance without the Housen of certaine Individuals what make their Habitation in this Duchy".

Very glad you don't mind, I am.