Kari Maaren

That's Fear
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So there is, of course, no such thing as a dramatic production called Horror!  The Musical.  I strenuously deny the existence of any such work.  If one did exist, however, this might be a song in it, possibly sung by an unbalanced mentor figure, or maybe a villain.  Who can tell?  The musical doesn't exist.  It isn't real.  It doesn't actually already have four songs and a basic plot.  No no no no no!

Recording

Lyrics
That's Fear
Night
Settles in.
Something
Draws near,
Makes
Some slight sound:
That's fear.

Faint
Whispered words
Float
In your ear.
They're not
In English:
That's fear.

Lost
In the mist.
Spectres
Appear
For
No known reason:
That's fear.

Somebody
Tall
Drops a
Single tear
In
Hazy moonlight.
That's fear.

Monsters
Are everywhere.
What do they look like?
We don't care.
It's enough that we know
That they're monsters
That are probably there.
Candles
Are scary too.
Doesn't
It bother you
How they blow out conveniently
With each
Mysterious breath of air?
What if the monsters control the candles?

Dark
And so vague.
Something
Is here.
You
Cannot punch it.
That's fear.

Bugs
In your hair
Shaped
Like small deer.
Then
They just vanish:
That's fear.

Flowers
In frost.
They
Taste like beer.
Look
At the mermaid:
That's fear.

It
Doesn't matter
What
I say here.
It's all
In the tone:
That's fear.

It's all
In the tone:
That's fear.


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Content copyright Kari Maaren 2013
Images copyright Kari Maaren, Phil Mills, Erik Mohr, and Karl Stahl 2013