gasping <br />grasping <br />veinlike <br />whispy <br />appendages <br /> <br />tendrilling <br />toward the <br />vapour <br />of what once was <br /> <br />gaping <br />groping <br />wanlike <br />ventriloquating <br /> <br />accoutrement <br />tentacling <br />away from <br />venomous <br /> <br />fangs of today <br /> <br />should <br />Venus sit <br />and trap <br />unwitting victim <br /> <br />or would <br />Toiler prowl <br />and wrap <br />escaping prey: <br />the other self <br /> <br />in dark dismay.<br /><br />Frederick Kesner<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/wonderful-disgrace/