Faunication

[billy]

Sideways look,

I don't believe, she says, you know --
What's your favourite by Rimbaud?

Ah, say I, the best of him
was his full stop. I cannot quote
his pages, though
I've read them all. I don't speak French,
you understand, but he --
debauched, a dreadful man --
he spoke my tongue, and spoke it well.

He's gone to Hell, she says, and I --
well, I just sigh. It's Hell he left.
Full stop, he wrote.
Enough of this, this pleasure dome,
I'm done with poems.

How brave he was --
depraved and vile --
while I just sit
and dread the hour
when cowardice alone will force
my own full stop.

Sideways look,

Well I can quote
each word he wrote.

I pity her. She knows the lines
but never learned
to join the dots.

i thought i'd replied to this
great free verse poem. if i had one quibble it would be all the --'s, i found myself spending time looking at them all as i pondered the poem hehe.
the content is excellent. "it's hell he left" i think is the crux of the poem.
as opposed to "he's gone to hell" that said he did die young.
i get a feeling of the now mixed with the then; of over a 120 years. the two feel as though they're strolling down a supermarket isle and just gas-bagging. too many line to like just 1 or 2.

very publishable Leanne (jmo)
thanks for the read.