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
at

9 comments:

  1. cara8:58 p.m.

    brimstone!

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  2. cara9:00 p.m.

    and I don't mean that pejoratively.

    brimstone: burning and purifying agent.

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  3. D. Sky Onosson1:55 a.m.

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

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  4. cara1:48 p.m.

    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.

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  5. cara1:51 p.m.

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

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  6. c-fire1:55 p.m.

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

    That actually sounds like me anyways, heh, heh.

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  7. D. Sky Onosson4:26 p.m.

    I like the idea of using it as an epithet.

    "hey, you brimstone!"

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  8. Lorne Roberts11:12 a.m.

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

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  9. J C12:24 p.m.

    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.

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