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Open Poetry #38

Just the Butcher

Edward Grim
Senior Member

since 2005-12-18

Posts 1154
Greenville, South Carolina

0 posted 2006-07-27 12:05 PM

Just the Butcher

Butcher,
to only fester you,
you dirty-eye me all day.

I eat your job,
keep you working.
Eating the mammals,
Mmm, animals…
I dine with happy fingers,
but if I bite my utensil tip,
they become bleeders.
All for you,
so why the stink eye, Butcher?

You too have beliefs,
like me,
though they forget that you do
and they don’t even know
that I live
but I know enough for the both of us.
You live so unfettered
in your glass house made
of wood and modern contradictions.
Me, I just live tethered to
a misconception, the mirror.

And you, sir,
a vegetarian?
I know,
you don’t consume
the bill-payers,
you don’t eat your work.
You say,
“I don’t see garbage men
chowin’ down on week-old trash.”

Too many horror films
depict you as a butcher.
But I know,
you're
just the Butcher…

I'm not smart, I'm just a tricky dumb person.

scyzoryk_o4
Junior Member

since 2006-05-23

Posts 36
Canada and Poland

1 posted 2006-07-27 01:02 AM

Hey
This poem is awesome, it’s weird but in a good way. I am of the belief that It's choppy and doesn't flow at all (like this sentence), However for some reason the no-flow matches the words and it seems to work well together.
Favorite line :
"I eat your job,
keep you working.
Eating the mammals,
Mmm, animals…"

Wilga
Junior Member

since 2006-07-25

Posts 22

2 posted 2006-07-27 01:16 AM

Totally agree with the above. It works because it is so unusually done. Great, great piece of prose.

elisalie16
Member

since 2006-07-12

Posts 118
new jersey

3 posted 2006-07-27 07:15 AM

hmmm cleverly worded

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