the executioner

at first glance there's

a beautiful mind

and such potential,

but beneath it's bent

on bringing out the dead

from their peaceful sleep,

like so much pulp

fiction masking the perfect storm,

and the entire canvas is bleak vanilla

sky painted watery white by

an artist with eyes wide shut,

the score a looping siren-song

performed faithfully by the silence

of the lambs on their way to slaughter,

the shining in their unkowing eyes

vibrating a stir of echoes from

the deep, but the black panic

ripples away harmlessly

as a time to kill grows close

and what dreams may come give

no relief to the dreamers--the sheep

in line, in waiting, in

total trust of the machinist,

an american psycho with

a hair trigger and a cool hand,

luke

 

 

Reviews

[Absentee Reality Check]

i love this it is extroidinairily clever the way you got the movie titles to mesh with the concepts you were playing with, and then when you think about all the conotations that the movies carry in conjuction with the lines they are in, it's wow...just wow.

[PianoandPage]

you clever devil!

interesting. a phycological trip. the associations of the movie titles gives fantastic new undercurrents to the poem which in and of itself is very good.

one movie i would change... "the deep" to "the abyss". but that's just me.

[Rambling Prose]

I love this piece! I'm thankful that I came across your contest - even if my entry didn't count! - LOL

Very clever and I love it!

[Angelic Darkness]

I love the way you added different movie titles in your poem to
describe different images. Very creative. AD