Oct 15, 2006 22:42
Ode On Odium, Whence Harvey Stumbled Upon His Beloved In Bed With The Fresh Enemy
He was sleeping, wet and curled
Like a furtive bacterium
Against the blade or sluice gate-now
Pressed into the marrow
Of this warm and broken sparrow:
The bird, its other bones are hollow
And he knows not how to mend them.
He will break them all the same.
I should break him, break his world
To prove praxis: carpe deum!
She is no longer mine-this cow
Is set to birth a farrow
With a swine and shameless carrow.
Why should madness heartbreak follow?
True love never will commend them:
They are livestock with no name.
I, the florid, fustian shaper
Will bestain and burn my paper
With foreknowledge of their doom,
And then, calmly, leave the room.