Ventriloquism

Hand on my spine
Tending to make me speak
Rheumatically.

Box of dolls
In the hot head of the house,
Flaps a Greek cross,

Tape the color of vellum.
My little buddy in there,
My little chum

Who hates my guts,
His lifeless legs bent under him,
The crown of his top hat opened

Like a can of spilled milk.
Demon of the abyss,
Haunter of the nothing,

Shove your hand
Into my dirty sock
And walk a lonesome mile.