10-24-2013, 08:20 AM
(10-23-2013, 12:19 PM)billy Wrote:I enjoyed this poem very much. It kind of reminds me of the poem "After School, Street Football, Eighth Grade" by Dennis Cooper.
It was the day birds died,
the day you, me, us departed. I don't think "us departed" works... maybe cut it to "the day we departed." I think it's stronger.
Seeing you knelt on our bed
trussed like pig on a stick
taking it boy scout style;
gave me an erection. Great imagery
I was embarrassed.
why not a Shirley Temple lie
while licking a lollipop?
It would have been much sweeter
than grunts of infidelity.Again, great imagery and description.
I could have pretended.
The twelve bore was as snug
as Harry's hairy bollocks,
lay asleep behind its blued-steel door
your bore was less safe.
Harold was a 90's dose master,
the one,
the only eternal crab.
I woke the sleeping weapon
blasted your two poodles;
one barrel per parody.
And departed.
i used departed at the end in the hope of hooking back to the start, not sure if it works.
"What I thought was an end turned out to be a middle.
What I thought was a brick wall turned out to be a tunnel."
--Tony Hoagland
"In this world where classification is key,
I want to erase the straight lines
So I can be me."
--Staceyann Chinn
What I thought was a brick wall turned out to be a tunnel."
--Tony Hoagland
"In this world where classification is key,
I want to erase the straight lines
So I can be me."
--Staceyann Chinn

