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| Apr 2nd, 2003 05:22 PM | ||
| kellychaos |
Cannibalistic poetry is nothing new. Check this out ... first draft of "Romeo & Juliet" :  Quote:
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| Apr 1st, 2003 03:05 PM | ||
| glowbelly | this is why i don't like most poetry. | |
| Apr 1st, 2003 02:39 PM | ||
| Jeanette X |
A Poem I found HENRY HART The Starving Time, Jamestown, 1610* Only the moon saw him lick blood From snow beneath the palisade, hold Crystals to his lips like a priest Steadying a chalice of wine. Only the candle twisting on its wick Saw him hook the pot over flames, Lean over his wife with a knife As if to kiss her on the table. Nothing could cure his hunger. He opened her belly the way his father Cut through feathers of sick chickens Outside their house in Gloucestershire. He bundled the fetus in deerskin, Sank it with stones through a hole Chopped with an axe in the James River. An owl hooted like a drowsy rooster. With only flames as witnesses He boiled pieces of her for the supper He knew might be his last, Then stared at grease on his hands And asked the fire's ash: How else Could I build God's paradise In this frozen swamp? How else Could our divided bodies become one? *Some of the first settlers in Jamestown, Virginia, resorted to cannibalism during what became known as The Starving Time. This incident is based on an account given by a settler George Percy in his brief history: A True Relation of the proceedings and occurrents of moment which have hap'ned in Virginia from the time Sir Thomas Gates was shipwrack'd upon the Bermudes, anno 1609, until my departure out of the country, which was anno Domini 1612.  8-)
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