[stylist] Poem: "Snuff"

[Bridgit Pollpeter]

I come from a school of thought that poetry is up to the reader in terms
of meaning and emotion. Really any writing, but I learned in my poetry
classes to not necessarily disect poetry word by word and sentence by
sentence, but to look at it as a whole. Much like art.

Bridgit

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Bill

Thanks for sharing.  I'm not sure I get the whole thing from a first
reading, but I get that you have an expressive way of writing.

Shawn

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From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of William L
Houts
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Subject: [stylist] Poem: "Snuff"

Hi Stylists,

Here's a short poem I wrote last summer.It's interesting to me because I
was using a lot of rhyme last summer and this one barely has any.  The
subject matter isn't very pretty, but I think this one may be one of my
best, even if it's bad form to say so, ha.


--Bill


--Bill


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The photo made me ill:that's how I knew.

This was no gaffe, no show for the marks

but murder:the plain motel bed,

and the eyes, god the eyes of dephless X.

Hewas naked,

this man reduced to the size

of someone's doll.The legs hung

over the bed's edge, and he lay,

his back flat, though beyond all rest,

all sight, all knowing. As if only

this camera, this eye

and the knifelike eye

behind it, unveiled how things really are:

a mansion of rooms without pity,

and their stunted ridiculous devils

O reader, with your outraged eye

you've had your monsters too:

your heartsblood thieves, your killers,

your stunted ridiculous devils

O reader,with your dog-nose truth,

your yes, your gifts of mending fire

you are the hope for us all.

and upon our stricken heads,

the gracious rains fall.





















--
"Let's drink a toast now to who we really are."

           --Jane Siberry

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