Seven syllables
Cthulhu
If you say it right.

Ph’nglui mglw’nafh
Cthulhu
R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn

Not dead but dreaming
Old Ones slumber through aeons
Dead for tax reasons

It sounds like hentai:
‘Lovecraft’ and then ‘tentacles’
In the same sentence.

Maybe ‘from the sea’
Is referencing sailor-suits
On girls in highschool.

Maybe Carcosa’s
Vile summoning rituals
Are close to the mark?

Great Lord Cthulhu
Is really the ultimate
Tentacle monster.

Baby Cthulhu:
“Tentacoo wape–ask me how!”
Lovecraft spins in grave.

It’s hard not to steal
From “The Thing That Should Not Be”.
Those lines fit haiku.

That music compels
Yes, you must ascend the stairs
God, it’s full of stars

In Arkham Horror
you can defeat Cthulhu.
This seems wrong to me.

I’m rather impressed.
No haikus of racism
Or misogyny.

Ah, the Big Apple.
O noes! Lots of ‘foreigners’!
“The Horror at Red Hook”

Fear of all non-Whites,
Fear of women and seafood,
Mark all Lovecraft’s work.

Is that Howard’s fear?
Not unspeakable horror,
But shellfish gone bad?

I do not know why
the geek culture has embraced
H. P. Lovecraft’s works.

HPL would roll
in his grave, if the byakhee
hadn’t got there first

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