The blasted blindfold’s been removed,
I can see ev’ryone around—
Their hidden faces preapproved—
Not a peep, they stare with no sound.
My love for Edie is profound—
A sword points to my chest, unmoved—
We’d be hitched, but I lost that ground;
The blasted blindfold’s been removed.
Disinheritance, been reproved
For failing my father—renowned—
Would harm her campaign, now approved.
I can see ev’ryone around—
There, Chesterfield Morgan...dad...bound;
A crowd of white-veiled faces moved—
Edith Kennedy there, no sound—
Their hidden faces preapproved.
General Hedgebet had long groomed
Me to join the White Band—power found—
My chances for Edith: improved.
Not a peep, they stare with no sound.
My dad, hotel magnate, there bound—
“You’ve said the vows and are approved,”
Edie’s, not Hedgebet’s, voice then drowned
The room—“Kill him! Have him removed!”—
The blasted blindfold.
© 2026 Tristan Robert Lange. All rights reserved.
First published on tristanrobertlange.com, October 12, 2026.
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Coming this Macabre Monday:
DEVILISHLY DREADFUL
The Wild Kids of America; or,
The Children of Fright
on October 19, 2026
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Author:
Tristan Robert Lange (
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- Comment from author about the poem: This is the fifth part of Season 2 in my series, Devilishly Dreadful. For Macabre Monday. Inspired by Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s The Black Band; or, The Mysteries of Midnight, this rondeau redoublé reimagines the novel’s secret criminal society within the political and institutional machinery of present-day America.
- Category: Gothic
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- In collections: Devilishly Dreadful: A Macabre Monday Series.
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I'm scared of Mondays now! Is Popeye? lol.
LOL! Orchi, Popeye's barricaded himself inside a spinach glughouse. Olive's outside demanding an explanation, Obi-Wan's negotiating with the landlord, and somebody's slipped a mysterious white envelope under the door! 🎭🗡️🤍🙏
Not familiar with that novel Tristan but the ominous feel comes through it the poem dark and almost gothic in nature most appropriate for this time of year and for governments we have.
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