Horror Haiku Club Prompt
May 23 - Fiji Mermaid
Leased by P. T. Barnum for $12.75 a week in 1847, the Fiji Mermaid…
Your prompt is FIJI MERMAID.
Ugly monkey fish
Bunk from Barnum’s museum
We want to believe
…the creature was created by sewing a monkey’s torso to the body of a fish.
vampiric mermaids
sucked out your soul for a song
doomed to never die
Good thing, while in Oz,
Dorothy didn’t go swimming.
Freak monkeys galore.