she looks like gandhi
but fat and white
her hair artfully whorish
yet slim and black as her
wails
that god
wants her tattoos
bitten off
to eat dry toast
on her birthday
and say
s-e-x
like it were a worm
ready to be raped
by cum-crusted
crows
and she says:
see: it just
terrifies
me (it’s just too easy)
seeeee
it just terrifes
me (to wish you harm)
but i say
gurl
you must be brave
it’s ice cream day
the germans have gone away
but you insist you were born
on blessed blamesday
your egghead scrambled
and your sweaty arms
screaming for the rent
because motherhood
and the world
had failed us
both
see
why this just
terrifies
me
(how i could wish some harm)
so why don’t you just beat off
on thanksgiving day
like any other normal person
instead of running to market
bible and your unstable vagina
knocking about in your pocket
(i think he can do without your nipples and loose change)
on the contrary
she sighes
and dies
her taffy bones whispering:
(see it just terrifes me)
god in the green
god in the grass
god in the face
god in the ass
(it just terrrrrrrifies me)
god in the purple
god in the brown
god’s in the shit
when we all fall down
(so i’ll just wish me harm)
god in the black
god in the red
god the good fucker
god is now dead
and i prayed
to the patch of sky
a hail mary blue
you are not in the room
with the same terrible flower
repeating on the walls
little ghosted woman
losing your shirt and small hoard of dignity
to greasy abraham and
his boy-toy issac
and yes you’re sick
of the white
of the mud
and me singing
“hey, it’s june and i’m alive! i’m alive!”
and you say
you’re missing
the sun
and the fun
of shovels and puddles
(oh, it’s just too easy to terrify you)
so I must root and root
in the dirt
until I can stop wishing you harm
and once the ground
vomits up the coins of your eyes
then will I find
enough
yellow
Author notes
why have religion when you can have god?
A contest entry
- Graceful Tongues by rendezvous.
1500 points, ended July 19, 2008, 12 entries
Silver trophy winner
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Please tell me what you think
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Why indeed. This is a bounty of riches here and perhaps why I think of a church as the sky because I have never believed you needed a house to pray inside of when he created all of what we live within.
'and once ithe ground' - think you need 'in' here
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it just terrifies me that you can write so damn damn damn damn damn damn fucking good. gah! mange dla marde
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Your poetry at once seems chaotic, beautiful and aligned with some higher vision of consilience. The cursing and vulgarity and blaspheming is done with such command and grace that it seems ordained by the gods themselves, therein making sin of the utmost Divinity.
I bow in reverence to your tactful lassoing of the heavens. Thank you for this entry.
In agreement with Allyce May: may we never be complacent with such inspirational surroundings.
jen
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omg...where have I been??? This is absolutely a stunning write! I have added you to my favorites and plan on delving into your poetry this weekend. Love, Lane
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Haha, well damn. That's about all that comes to mind
That and holy crap this is stunning. Along with I wish I could write like that 
Jeanette*~
P.S. the s-e-x part was amazing. I remember spelling that out when I was a little girl, because sex was a "bad" word so spelling it out somehow eliminated the wrong-doing You make me think.
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to be consumed hot with a sexist spoon
on a silver plate and with a golden tooth
poetry happens when you're aware you're psychotic
religion when you're aware not
sex is the cake and god the cherry on top
and even if everyone is licking their sticky fingers
only a few get fat ( and no one satisfied)
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I agree with Allyce...
boy do I need help if I truly believe I can write. Totally stunning. So many, many lines, words
I wish were mine. In a word, stellar.
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It's raw, intense, powerful, passionate, profound - it's everything that your poetry always is.
"her hair artfully whorish
yet slim and black as her
wails"
You are extraordinary; appearing randomly with such epic poems and reminding me that all the rest of us here may have become a little complacent.
This is nothing short of amazing
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Thank you, m'pet. I've noticed that my words are heading towards a darker yet more real path and it's hard sometimes to gauge if I'm really still poetic or just psychotic.
Your words give me a comfort that I am on the right path...
Merci.
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