The Interview--the 1st stanza may look familiar...

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Open Poetry #15

The Interview--the 1st stanza may look familiar...

VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

0 posted 2001-08-29 06:07 PM

if you read my earlier post today, the limerick-like piece

fresh, clean, cool
not one ounce of drool
dribbles from the fool
that’s stepped and dried
from shower’s tide
and readied self for school

and then
THE INTERVIEW

I enter-
you remove the top layer of me
my vanity

then place me in a chair
the name if not written there
“Hot Seat”
you make certain I’m aware

next you shave my head
of all its common sense

then, with all intents
you strip me of my sanity

oh, you leave a shred
so I might keep my head
in case you wish to enter with

the lovely guillotine

as I face you in your assaults
to pick at me like crows
pulling at my clothes
dropping them at my toes
from disinterest

you then assail with blows
with questions that you throw
to dethrone any part of me
that’s clung to the heart of me
unthreading from the start of me
the confidence I wore
just outside that door

then exiting with a remnant of what’s left of this tenant, I pick up my brain and wash it with my tears
and carry no animosity to the three ravens left behind
nevermore, nevermore, NEVERMORE

rwood
Member Elite

since 2000-02-29

Posts 3793
Tennessee

1 posted 2001-08-29 06:30 PM

Wow! This is intense. A very bad interview indeed. Let them eat cake! Your verse allows the reader to feel completely picked apart. Excellent. And the nevermore is a perfect solid stand.

Sincerely,
Regina

It's all in the mind
Except for what's in the heart.

VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

2 posted 2001-08-29 06:44 PM

thanks, Regina, I know it wasn't as bad as all that, but when one feels picked at, it is intense and venting the feelings can surely help...can't they?

I've had worse ones, at least I didn't turn read till near the end, and only once did it feel like my lips were stuck to my dry, dry teeth...progress, that counts, right?

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