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Justin Ehrlich was born in Essex in 1985 and has a degree in Philosophy. He writes poetry and short fiction dealing with themes of death, insanity and the supernatural.

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16 Oct 2011
October 16th, 4:50am 0 comments

Emily Dickinson 1830 - 1886

One need not be a chamber to be haunted,
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place.
  
Far safer, of a midnight meeting         
External ghost,
Than an interior confronting
That whiter host.
  
Far safer through an Abbey gallop,
The stones achase,         
Than, moonless, one’s own self encounter
In lonesome place.
  
Ourself, behind ourself concealed,
Should startle most;
Assassin, hid in our apartment,         
Be horror’s least.
  
The prudent carries a revolver,
He bolts the door,
O’erlooking a superior spectre

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Edouard Manet 1832 - 1883 - The Suicide
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