Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Until you get there

I can't believe you did this
you disgusting son of a bitch
it ain't worth it
and how desperate are you
that you do desperate things
rationalizing like a bug
that sees something
and moves there with no
consideration of between
the fire in your eyes
that blinds you from within

9 comments:

cara said...

brimstone!

cara said...

and I don't mean that pejoratively.

brimstone: burning and purifying agent.

D. Sky Onosson said...

I don't recall anyone ever using brimstone pejoratively - but they should!

cara said...

I was trying to guard against him thinking that I was invoking "fire and brimstone", the term that is used to describe a type of preaching or message given to scare people into doing something...I guess I didn't want him to think I was calling this poem a scare tactic or anything.


that term is used pejoratively.

cara said...

but I'm all for using brimstone pejoratively...
:)

c-fire said...

"preaching or message given to scare people into doing something"

That actually sounds like me anyways, heh, heh.

D. Sky Onosson said...

I like the idea of using it as an epithet.

"hey, you brimstone!"

Lorne Roberts said...

so, do we get some context for this piece, or...?

J C said...

ouch, I'd had to be on the receiving end of this one. Although, quite often, anything said is more or less a mirror to oneself. hmmm.