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RSWells
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since 2001-06-17

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0 posted 2002-03-10 03:45 PM

          The Revulsion of the Cynic
                      or
            The Ecstacy Rap(t)
http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/2002/03/08/news/local/2817260.htm

Bulbous Bacchanalian* bane
earthly pleasures are the prelude to earthly pain,
did morals have a quarrel at the oral drain
where bouncers had announced admitting only marked of Cain?

Raucous Bacchae was your answer
that Mephistopheles and you pair perfect dancers
and too you're designate to drive the necromancers*
on a ride of fratricide imbide of hypno trancers?

Pill drop no stop hip hop night
were ya zoomin' to the boomin' in the neon lights,
ecstatic and erractic portable crash site,
unacrobatic, intercepted homeless man mid flight?

How'd yer pair of rider's advise?
Did spirits Faust* and goddess Hecate* justify,
ignore as just a bore the windshield yoked man's cries,
pump up the volume and garage him till he dies?

Then sex and peaceful sleep you went,
the morning sent to peek in on new resident
two nights he spent in torment yet you were hellbent,
off you went but first lament (apology no doubt meant)

Somewhere there's a special box
on a private little cellblock with some special locks
where the public walks and gawks through portholed mocks
of web'ed windshields viewing you in lifelong stocks.

*Bacchus-(myth) god of wine
bacchanalia- drunken feast, orgy
bacchae- female attendants of Bacchus
*Mephistopheles- one of the 7 chief devils
*necromancy- conjuration, black arts, magic
             practiced by a witch or sorcerer
*Faust- character of medieval legend who sold his
        soul to the devil
*Hecate- (myth) a goddess of earth and hades
         associated with sorcery, hounds and
         crossroads

"Happy people have no history" - French Proverb

Nan

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1 posted 2002-03-10 03:51 PM

INTERNAL RHYMING ALLITERATIVE ASSONANCE at its BEST...

[This message has been edited by Nan (03-10-2002 03:53 PM).]

Sunshine

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2 posted 2002-03-10 05:35 PM

Apt title. Thank you for the followup link on the story. You are an astute poet...

Seymour Tabin
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since 1999-07-07

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Tamarac Fla

3 posted 2002-03-10 05:44 PM

RSWells,
A literate well done work.
Enjoyed the read.

PearlsB4Swine
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since 2002-02-01

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where the heart finds me

4 posted 2002-03-10 06:16 PM

This gave me a surreal vison of a life consumed with avarice, in eternity paying the price. Very well constructed!

strbbux
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since 2001-12-19

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5 posted 2002-03-10 07:39 PM

Very well written account and thanks for the follow up. floria

Floria

"Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them"
(Oliver Wendell Holmes)

Janet Marie
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since 2000-01-22

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6 posted 2002-03-10 10:01 PM

Pill drop no stop hip hop night
were ya zoomin' to the boomin' in the neon lights,
ecstatic and erractic portable crash site,
unacrobatic, intercepted homeless man mid flight?

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You DO know how cool this is, right?
yes.....you know... and I'm thinking there aint much you dont know...You muse is so vast and varied and astutely impressive.
DITTO what Nan said

Mysteria

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since 2001-03-07

Posts 18328
British Columbia, Canada

7 posted 2002-03-11 02:26 AM

I am smiling and laughing over this one, gotca - my dictionary is on my lap! So...ditto what Janet Marie said, as once AGAIN, she took my favorite part (I am going to have to set an alarm clock JM) LOL

Wowzers Richard, you are sure firing them out and with such poetic excellence.

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