Poem: Prerequisites

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What: A Jossverse poem, free verse, very very short.
Why: for stultiloquentia, because she always rocks my world.
A/N: I suck at poetry. But it's fun to try.

Prerequisites

You must understand her wrists, her pulse-point wrists, murderous wrists.
Broken, they'd scent the air like cinnamon sticks.
You must taste her kisses, her messianic kisses, Life-Savers red cherry kisses.
Fucked, they blossom and she pops, like waiting champagne fizz.
You must see her sleep, after-sex sleep, picture perfect, surrender sleep.
Sketched, she'll be drawn and pale as paper.
You must fathom her forgiveness, her "you're a man" forgiveness, your treacherous, hated love, tousled in the sheets.
You must love this girl
To kill her.

Comments

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

Wow! I don't think I've ever read a Jossverse poem, and boy am I happy to be cutting my teeth on this one. I love the imagery and repeated list structure, not to mention the emotional punch of the last two lines. This *is* Angelus. Great work.

[tkp.livejournal.com]

I can only write poems in list structure for some reason. I'm glad it worked for you!

I kinda hate poetry most of the time, but stultiloquentia has a list of Jossverse poems she started recently and it's been fun to read (I highly recommend germaine_pet's play and sobsister's short poem, and Stulti herself wrote a fabulous sestina by Illyria, which is the best fandom poem I've ever read (well, unless you count germaine_pet's but hers is a play so I don't). /rather long advert

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

Oh, brilliant! Thank you for the links. *gobbles them up*

[tkp.livejournal.com]

Pleased to be of service!

*pats you on the back and burps you*