Grocery List (Inspired By Packrat Mike's Title)

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Open Poetry #13

Grocery List (Inspired By Packrat Mike's Title)

Honeybee
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since 1999-12-26

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Ontario, CANADA

0 posted 2001-04-06 09:55 PM

*Although my poem is dark in theme, thank you Mike for inspiring me!*

Grocery List

Friend, do me a favour
mix a medley of repentful savour
soothe hunger's weep, take this grocery list
replenish a heart, long ago dismissed,
buy me some spice
melt this sheeth of ice,
I need a prime cut of veal
a needless death, blood-red drink to inwardly heal,
sweeten a sour soul with herbal honey tea
calm the banshee in stomach's chamber, wail set free,
serve a platter of innocent lamb flesh
match my stolen youth, of yesteryear's heart-core thresh,
oh, moment's healing caress of angel-silk tissue
wipe the slate clean of past's residue,
pop the cork of expensive chardonnay
dull drunken regret, drowning in bubbles of passing days,
pick an overlooked loaf of day-old bread
equal the staleness of a cruel fate-made bed,
roast shiskabobs with wooden stake through skin, sacrifice food
no hope of escape, helpless as I, unjustly skewed,
friend, reaper, take this grocery list
binge, then purge a heart long ago dismissed,
and when I'm through
with the taste of pain-in-blue
I'll disgard it with the grocery store's paper-bag trash,
sold for slaughter, used, mangled and mashed

~*By Melissa Honeybee*~