Apparition ['Ghost Detective'...Terrible Justicar]

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[ a sonnet, not-quite ]: 

Apparition -- the Ghost Detective [3]

Published: January 21, 2015 at 3:48am

In deepest, most Dead night:

Visiting morgues, funeral homes and cemeteries ...

[ Silent ... Unseen ... Incorporeal ... ]

... a paladin-lich -- the Ghost Detective -- listens to entreaties from the Wrongfully Dead

             ... entreaties for aid, advocacy ...  

                                ... for vengeance ... 

                           ... for Justice Most Severe ...

                                <    <    <   *   >    >    >

... Dead night ...

               Within the glistening-pristine, most prestigious bodice of a city -- the city herself, a luscious yet tawdry promise; 

                            a bejeweled matron, long since turned-out and worn-out ... now carrion ...

           ... slowly eaten away from the inside by the vermin who abetted in her not-so-hidden murder ...  

the state-of-the-art, multimillion-dollar fortress of a panicked crime lord is but little better than air itself ...

     ... for a particular, uninvited [ Silent ... Unseen ... Incorporeal ... ] 'guest' ...

[  Silent ... Unseen  ... Incorporeal ... 

                                     ... until he wishes otherwise;

       ... until he arrives and is ... Inside ... 

                                 ... just paces behind his prey: 

a thoroughly camouflaged crime lord -- an exploitative pile of garbage who believed himself royalty, self-made aristocracy ... 

                            ... one of the newer, more crude and cocksure generation of vermin  ]

           a dreadful paladin-lich [ Terrible Justicar ] has arrived...

             ... and he brings Justice  ... 

                                   ... through vengeance ...

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