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Damsel in Duress
Contributed by
Butterat_Zool
on
Saturday, 3rd May 2003 @ 08:45:00 PM in AEST
Topic:
DarkPoetry
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Weak with scurvy,
Syphilis,
And dripping sweat
Through salty mist,
A greasy hulk
With mud-slicked hair
And pustules where
His back is bear,
Grunting and lumbering
Over his friend
Who’ll never see home
Or her mother again
Who was stripped from her house
Round a quarter to three
At a time when the sleeping
Eyes could not see
And deaf ears…
It’s a damsel in duress
And a glutton overtaking
And the violence here tonight
Serving as some kind of slaking
And she’ll never sleep again
And her belly won’t stop quaking
Mutiny from the fetus
That her oven won’t stop baking
And she serves unholy causes
But she can’t get out alive,
And he wants her for her beauty
And he wants her for a wife
And he gets what he deserves
If he cuts it at the wrist
But she serves unholy causes
And her spirit is made whist.
So the sea and morning sickness
Leaves her in one crazy state
Where she leaves her room all fetid
From rejecting what she ate
And by some perverse bulimia
The fetus up and died
And her body is malnourished,
Eaten up from the inside
And she hangs there from her manacles
And kicks against the wall
And the rats consume her vomit
As the pirate ate her soul
And she goes into convulsions
From the horrors she has seen
Her infections won’t stop bleeding
And the rodents won’t be weaned
And the thunderstorms are dancing
With the waterspouts tonight
And our damsel in duress
Wouldn’t die without a fight
But she has no will to live
It was stripped away outright
So she curses her creator
And she bleeds away the night
And the ship is ripped to pieces
By the storm at nature’s best
And she floats beneath the surface
And she finally gets her rest
And she tastes the salty sea
And she feels that she’s been blessed
For the nightmare is now over
For our damsel in duress.
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Butterat_Zool
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2003-05-03 20:45:00]
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Re: Damsel in Duress
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by Ilhar on
Saturday, 3rd May 2003 @ 11:05:42 PM AEST
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this was an excellent write,,riveting,,but rather disturbing
Shari |
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Re: Damsel in Duress
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by ladyfawn on
Tuesday, 6th May 2003 @ 02:05:04 AM AEST
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wow! par' excellence at poetry's finest! ! !
truely an amazing poem, hugs n' love nessa |
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Re: Damsel in Duress
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by exiled on
Tuesday, 6th May 2003 @ 02:37:06 AM AEST
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All I can say is I absolutely love this. It is a lot like a lot of my poetry and I really connect ecspecially with some current happening in my life. Great Write. keep em coming, Please.
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