Just another night
with my old
flame, the girl who
left me long ago. Just
as friends, we shared a
drink, talking and laughing
about old times.
She jokes about how
she couldn't stand how
clingy I was, or how I
laughed at all of her
corny jokes, and how I'd
always ask "Why so
serious?" and just laugh
along. Another drink and
I loosen up, and she tells
me about her new love.
A man younger than
me, the love of her life.
She tells me how happy
she is, but I've heard
the rumors. He drinks
and smokes, and beats
her all he likes. He
always abuses her and
she puts up with it because
"she loves him", and now she
sits here smiling, lying right
to my face, asking me,
"Why so serious?"
Another drink and I'm
all loosened up, and she
still prattles on about the
love of her life, lying on
and on. Why is she torturing
me so? She knows how much
hearing all of this actually
hurts. I knew she was a
sadistic bitch.
One last drink for the two
of us, and as she turns
her head I pull out
my favorite utensil, sharp
as a razor's edge. She
turns back wearing a
grim expression on her
face. "Why so serious?"
I ask in my old, casual
way, just smiling.
She tries to run but
I bring her down before
she can get far.
"Why so serious" I
ask again. She screams for
me to stop, and all I
can think of is the Hell
she just put me through.
She screams out her lover's
name, hoping he'll swoop down
and save her, while I just
laugh at the notion of
her being saved. "why
so serious?" I ask, as I
place the blade in her
mouth. "I think you need to
smile more" I jest, as I
carve away at her face.
Her screams fill the room
as I get up to leave,
both of us with smiles on
our faces.
Author notes
Wrote this poem a while ago after seeing the Dark Knight. I loved Heath Ledger's performance as the joker, and I loved the insanity, so I wrote a poem inspired by it. I hope you enjoy.
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This was dark indeed. Carving a smile onto an ex love's face like that was very interesting. I enjoyed the write.
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This is good, and I thought you were about to move on to button #2. Glad you didn't.
el fixo, mayhap?:
as friend,- add s
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ahhh, danke, i'm constantly mistyping small things like that, appreciate the fix.
what is button 2, if i may ask?
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I'll tell you if you ever hit it, that's the best I can do...lol
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i'm going to take a wild stab in the dark that it has to do with necrophilia; which is a topic i'll never go into, just a lil too out there for me. i just don't see the point of doing something to someone if they're not able to experience it. XD
if that's not it, then i have no idea. lol -
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Nope, necrophilia is not the magic button #2. Not even close.
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I can feel that pain and hear that call. But instead of carving I rejoiced because relization took over and made me understand all for the better. Good job at recreating. Nice write.
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Pictures in a manic mind
Sounds like the joker has a smile big enough for two as he so needs to replicate it on his ex-lovers face.
It would be most anguishing indeed to feel the cut from a ex-lovers blade as he twist and forces that false smile upon her not so innocent face.
I like it, I like it so!
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