let her be
the thorn in your side
the tundra
and your decline
fall asleep
in the jungle
with your shoelaces
dutifully untied
and her hair
unraveling your dreams
to a kiss
of such magnitude
of such
a repugnant dissonance
or a riddle
you heard the answer to first
when she asks you
for the perfect question
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This has such a simple lyrical quality, yet it's suffused with enough grandeur to make it just so terse. It reminds me of poetry I loved when I was younger, that easy quick rhythm, the short tight couplets... Nice!
PS: I love that teddy bear (or whatever these things are called). I still don't see the poem in it, but I love it independently, carrying its heart on its sleeve--quite literally!
such lyrical dissfunction
messy a painful
in a dutiful kind of way
relinquishing to the inclination for dissaster.
that bear thing is just friggin' scary, especialy the heart shaped hole revealing the brains...
i'm guessing there in lies the correlation to the poem. bound and gagged, all but prostrated...
Contrasts are certainly one way to keep poems about love honest. I really started to flow with this one - it has a lot of music to it.
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