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Valentine's Day Poem
I really used to hate Valentine's Day, but lately I've seen it as a chance to explore the more macabre hearty imagery. Last year I plastinated two lamb hearts, spray-painted them red, bound them in barbed wire and put them in a shadow-box. It's still on the turntable and we're planning on burning and/or smashing it on V-D this year.
I aslo wanted to give the wife a little love poem that mixes gore with the idea of those silly Necco Sweetheart candies. Be Mine S.K. (c) 2007 Stirring as I think of you, It flutters, leaps and calls your name, It thunders to the heavens “Be Mine.” Born within this Ossian cage, My Necco-flavoured candy love Rages to be free, to be yours “Sweetheart” This beating threatens to destroy, Explode from out my chest And rend my flesh to be near you “Forever Yours” Now lying, bleeding on the floor, I claw as deep as fingers can, And cracking bones to yank it free, I hold my heart within my hand. Pulsing with undying lust, This organ is no longer mine, And parting lips to breathe your name, "Will you be my Valentine?"
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"Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies." Earl of Chesterfield "A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well." Francis Bacon |
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I like it. Thanks for posting it. :)
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Love the progression from the sappy to the macabre. Had to look up the Ossian reference. Well done!
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Good poem. Slight shades of Poe and a more restrained kind of Plath.
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I'm their bastard love-child...well, maybe not love child, more like their obsessive, destructive lust-child:D
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"Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies." Earl of Chesterfield "A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well." Francis Bacon |
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I love it !!
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It's a good combination to embrace. Not especially incongruous. The last poem I workshopped ended up being called a combination of Ginsberg, Whitman and Sid Vicious. I'd like to think that was a compliment, but I couldn't quite soak it in.
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beat-hypersensual-nihlism?
wow
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"Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies." Earl of Chesterfield "A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well." Francis Bacon |
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Mentally ill minority poetry.
MOTHERLAND You made us a race when you gassed us at Auschwitz, Since before that we were a disease, Caravans of wandering lepers. Races are men you hang from one tree A race is a place where you burn the debris Races are men you imprison together and Rights that you hang on the same shelf A race is a pit that dig to shit in AND I I I I I I AND I WE WE WE WE WE WE WE We are a race. When we cry into one handkerchief, When we’re shot in the same front When we come together in relief Which sends their hounds to hunt. When we fester on your ships of fools When we rot in the hospitals Where you feed us jello served with rules And shock our testicles. When you put us all in silent rooms Where doctors all share laughs And you make us shriek out certain doom And beg for autographs. I pledge annoyance at the lack Of a United States of Schizophrenia And to the repugnance of wasted hands One nature Under dirt With lunacy And judgment For all. |
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lovely
I totally see the Ginsberg critique with the rhythmic repetition. Excellent work.
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"Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies." Earl of Chesterfield "A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well." Francis Bacon |
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