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H. Arlequin
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since 1999-08-23
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0 posted 1999-09-26 08:45 PM




Beauty and the Beheld


"But, Lord, I hate being beautiful,
as if the curtain rising on stage,
every day performing, a dutiful
actress earning beauty's wage.

And their eyes, always following
like radar driven ordinance,
I, the target, they, gods allowing
no escape, nothing left to chance."

Filet mingon, name me the choicest cut,
a piece of meat before the grill,
to be consumed, my home the gut,
forgotten, till again, he'd eat his fill.

"Lord, let me take the veil, shave my head,
masked from brow to toe save eyes,
than let them leer, dream my bed,
abase my soul until it dies."


--H. Arlequin
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Poems From the Goober Tree http://nathoo.wustl.edu/goober_tree.htm

© Copyright 1999 H. Arlequin - All Rights Reserved
hoot_owl_rn
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since 1999-07-05
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1 posted 1999-09-26 09:01 PM


Very nice imagery in this piece...welcome to passions
H. Arlequin
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since 1999-08-23
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2 posted 1999-09-27 01:13 PM


smoooooooooooooches, hoot

HA

snow in summer
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3 posted 1999-09-27 10:54 PM


Radar driven ordinance is a tremendously powerful and very creative line. The ending is also just wonderful - so evocative and the perfect ending to this poem. well done!
H. Arlequin
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4 posted 1999-09-29 10:36 AM


smoooooooooches snow!!

HA

Michael
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5 posted 1999-09-29 12:01 PM


Wow, this is great. To find such a curse in beauty....I love it.

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Michael Anderson

May Darkness find you all through the day.



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