11-14-2024, 05:59 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-14-2024, 11:47 PM by RiverNotch.)
Tamar
The sins of Er and Onan, they were one,
just with discrete motives. Some claim the former spilled his seed
so as the beauty of his wife
would not be spoiled, others because for the beauty of his wife
he was too impatient, others still
because he would have the beauty of his wife
become his own -- it was through him
she learned to paint her face -- whereas the latter
was more pragmatic: he simply wanted
a child he could call entirely his own. So she put off
the garments of her widowhood, plucked bare
her brows and taped them back, applied
a heavy layer of foundation, lined
and coloured her eyes and lips, sculpted her cheeks
with shadow, her nose with highlights, fixed
the mess with finishing spray, put on
a veil made up of last year's hair, and went to town
a different woman. From this, she won
her favourite accessories -- an iron ring plated
silver, a copper coil plated gold
for her arm, for her whole person
a plastic scepter Swarovski studded,
and a pair of twins -- in other words,
the security of being called
the mother of her house
while turning green with shame before a court
of his own peers her twice father-in-law
turned groom.
The sins of Er and Onan, they were one,
just with discrete motives. Some claim the former spilled his seed
so as the beauty of his wife
would not be spoiled, others because for the beauty of his wife
he was too impatient, others still
because he would have the beauty of his wife
become his own -- it was through him
she learned to paint her face -- whereas the latter
was more pragmatic: he simply wanted
a child he could call entirely his own. So she put off
the garments of her widowhood, plucked bare
her brows and taped them back, applied
a heavy layer of foundation, lined
and coloured her eyes and lips, sculpted her cheeks
with shadow, her nose with highlights, fixed
the mess with finishing spray, put on
a veil made up of last year's hair, and went to town
a different woman. From this, she won
her favourite accessories -- an iron ring plated
silver, a copper coil plated gold
for her arm, for her whole person
a plastic scepter Swarovski studded,
and a pair of twins -- in other words,
the security of being called
the mother of her house
while turning green with shame before a court
of his own peers her twice father-in-law
turned groom.