Garden of the strange, you've grown quite a crop.
I look up, feel my heart thrum, and dead stop.
Surrounded by a thousand eyes and feet,
I feel a prickle of nerves more than of heat.
It's madness to halt before this army
who are armed with stance, and grins etched smarmy.
Fine. You say I've read too much King and Poe,
but I'm backing out of your horror show.