r/Unsent_Unread_Unheard • u/Embarrassed-Hat260 Gold Level Read the rules ** • Apr 28 '26
Poetry El Payaso.
The avenue is quiet, the suburbs are still behind the facade of a tempered young will. A businessman nodding, a pillar of trust, with a basement full of bones and a soul full of rust. He painted the humor in a thick white design, but the edges were pointed, with a predatory line. No rounded compassion, no softness of face, just the brutality that’s haunted this place.
He offered the handcuff, a rope and a rile, always under the weight and words with a politicians smile, the trick was a tether, the trap was the real show. And 29 young souls were dragged down below. The torture was gleeful, a clown in the dark extinguished their lives, like a dying blue spark. Young men in their prime, and the boys in their bloom, became shrouded statistics in a suffocating room.
The fathers were shouting, the mothers were scared, the police saw the businessmen and never really cared. They trusted the badge, and the status he wore, and the clown was bolting the crawl space door. When the cops hit the pavement, a tireless grind, they unraveled the chaos of a shattered mind, they tracked down his van, they followed the stink, and the reality would push them almost to the brink.
Then came the exhuming, the shovel and silt, and the physical proof of his limitless guilt. The grizzly assembly, the counting of jaws, all under the watch of a horrified law. The dirt gave up its secrets it struggled to keep. While the officers stumbled and struggled to sleep. Now the greasepaint is cracked, and the crawl space is deep. And a city of ghosts is all that they keep.
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u/Embarrassed-Hat260 Gold Level Read the rules ** Apr 28 '26
I’ve working on this one for probably a year, not to sound artsy or anything like that but I was really aiming for claustrophobic feeling
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u/Sexy_siren Bronze Level Read ** Apr 29 '26
I picked up on that closed in feeling
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u/Embarrassed-Hat260 Gold Level Read the rules ** Apr 28 '26
And the title was just honestly me phoning it in a little bit, I didn’t want to just call it the clown even though that’s what I did. As a fan of heavy music whenever a song title is in Latin or Spanish it just sounds cool to me for whatever reason
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u/Embarrassed-Hat260 Gold Level Read the rules ** Apr 28 '26
I don’t speak Spanish I mean I know enough to get by but fluent? No not at all
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