He was ethically disfigured,
but walked her dark spaces in comfort.
And she thought him beautiful.
Lecher, part-time legerdemain,
he pinched time and fed her emptiness with minutes and hours.
Moments bedecked with sex and faded flowers.
Armed with an Eight Track of unhappy laughter,
he answered fantasies of the broken heart.
He bore the essence of a coked-up Nabokov,
and he made her Lo.
4 comments:
OK... This one made me travel to m-w.com no less then three times. I'm beginning to think a substantial portion of their traffic is driven by your blog entries. Don't get me wrong, I'm learning new stuff, but you may want to do some hyperlinking for the less literary.
Oh, by the way... I liked it.
- The learning challenged. AKA...
- ND
PS - The Lo reference... is that as in "lo" or are you using a proper noun? That was my third trip.
I don't know how to hyperlink. Teach me. Lo has a dual reference.
lo - an exlamation to attract interest. He made her a perverse spectacle. And Lo, one of the many nicknames of Delores aka Lolita by Nabokov.
...again apologizing for not commenting. Since I spend the day with plain and straight forward shipping documents the switch to creative writing takes some adjustment on some days. You know I like all your writing...I'm your biggest fan (i love saying that and what it conjures). That said...this poem is a bit dark. And while you title it Release it seems more like trapped in manipulation to me.
BTW..thanks for the explanation of LO. I wouldn't have caught the Lolita reference b/c horror of horrors I actually haven't read that ...yet.
Sa
Awesome. One of the best you've posted yet IMO.
Did not have to look up anything. Don't think it was too obscure at all for a general poetry audience (as most poetry readers are fairly well-read).
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