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oracle-of-nonsense — Big Bad and Little Red
Published: 2012-11-13 20:08:59 +0000 UTC; Views: 475; Favourites: 7; Downloads: 4
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With her cherry-red berettopping the sweet-scented braid
that falls down her back
to touch just the beginning
of the mysteries beneath those
too loose pants,
she makes me hungry, so hungry,
no.
She is good, she is God’s,
she cries when she prays
and she stammers when I smile,
and look at her eyes, she believes
she needs me. I could sop up
all the uncertainty from those
pools of grey-blue sky, just,
little girl -- “It’s very nice. Your hair,
I mean.” -- come to me,
run from me, I will eat you up,
eat you up and still be hungry,
but I will never lie to you
like others do.
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There are children playing
in a lake, and I hear them laughing
but they sound farther than they are
and my body will heal this from my memory
but it is happening, and
the sky is very blue above me.
“You have such big hands...”
and they’re touching me,
and I should like it, because
you want me to so I want to
but I am cold
and the children are quiet now.
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Comments: 3
I get the fairytaleness, but to me, fairytales are dark and often sexual in nature, and I've always thought of the story of red riding hood being predatory on a creepier level than just eating...
It reminds me of this book I read which was rewritten fairytales which were very dark and disturbing. I liked that book, though, even if it scared me, because it was well-written and did it's job - freaking me out.
I think this is beautifully written, and frightening as well.
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Was the book the same one I was reading when inspired for this poem? Fairy tales and particularly Little Red are generally pretty dark already, when you stop to think about them. Sort of like a lot of Bible stories, really.
Thank you my dear.
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Perhaps? I forget the title. They really are.
But of course, lovely.
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