Comments | simplystars: this is not a subject line; this is not a poem about beauty

simplystars

this is not a subject line; this is not a poem about beauty

Apr 04, 2010 21:20

(It is a haunting, creepy sort of poem. Which of course is... seductive, in its own way.)

( In a Beautiful Country, by Kevin Prufer )

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akamine_chan April 5 2010, 04:32:56 UTC

Oh, I like that. Creepy, yes, but stunningly beautiful. *sigh*

Thank you for sharing, Stars. And oh, I got your card yesterday. Thank you for thinking of me! *hugs you tight*

kernezelda April 5 2010, 11:41:00 UTC

Whoa. Creepy and seductive, indeed. For some reason when reading this, it sounded (in my head) nearly completely in the voice of Andrei Codrescu, an NPR commentator.

this is not a subject line; this is not a poem about beauty arthurfrdent April 5 2010, 21:35:50 UTC

I suppose that someone way down the long road to ruin begins to see a beautiful girl behind that seduction... hoping that at least their last memory will be of love...

The writer surely has seen that road, maybe even heard a siren calling to him. When I got away from her call, many years ago... I wrote poetry for days. Not good like this... but I had to get it out to go on.