Trippy Cottontail~

  Would you give up a Klondike bar

For lent

  Or pull nails out of the wood

With brand new veneers

  How many licks of a whip

To get to the center of a broken girl?

  Priest with jolly rancher eyes

You don’t taste like water melon, you taste like a killer

  You can’t sit a sinner on a kneeling board

Dominus vobiscum don’t mean s**t to a surly adolescent with poppa stains

  Easter basket full of cherry bombs

Skip to my Lou with a sectioned cross between the pearl and the night

  Elvis flipped into velvet Jesus

Dilated girl on a bar stripping bones to Tom Waits’ scratchy jukebox tunes

  I remember speckled eggs

I remember shackled churches and soldiers in green pea coats

  Tradition moved the boys through lavender scents

A spray of memories on a white lapel

 

  Trippy shook her cotton tail from a pew, crawling under benches

Stole the holiday away with a chocolate Jesus melting in her cherry smile

With a Tom Waits look alike in a top hat

In a dive at the end of the bunny trail

A golden yoke between her faith and the travesty of fate

 

 

 

 

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Author's Note

Reviews

[LilyT]

Mistress of satirical agony, you make me laugh and cry in the same breath. The point of view from which you view everything would crush most human beings. You ARE mythology. Beautiful Pandora. Grab their necks with these wicked strains of poetic music. Maybe it'll wake them up before the s**t really hits the fan.

[Alexandra W]

I really love the contrast between innocent, soft things and dark things in your poem. Corruption, paradox, bittersweet life- your poem is a stunner :)

[NoneOfYourBusiness akaKITTY KUTABAREakaCandyPole]

You are very kind and "see" with eyes like mine :)

[Celeste21]

This is fire! It burns and coils with paradoxes then places you smack in the middle of the insanity we call life...

[Sean M. Addams]

love the imagery in this alot ..your talent always shines through in your work..nice job

[Siddhartha]

Oh, this is a bittersweet gift indeed on lovely Easter. your eyes see through everything and your pen writes beautifully.

[Brad]

for easter i nailed a rabbit to a cross...he didn't come back to life....what a disappointing holiday

[Lilly Negoi]

"A spray of memories on a white lapel" - allow me a very cliched "wow!" for this absolutely splendid line!

[Jūdan FyreHeart]

Love the mix of sharp harshness and satire you used in this. Packed full of great images =D

[LA Lorena]

Even candy-coated, there is no mistaking your talent for dark satire. Truly imaginative and hard hitting as always.

[David W Moore III]

This starts with a hint of humor but quickly whips out the knife to slice deep. Hard hitting for what at first glance appeared to be a happy bunny piece. Your magic shines through as usual.

[Chloe..Across the Unive..]

Tom Waits is fabulous .. love your candy coated poem satires so apparent - covered in chocolate and cherry bombs -humorous and
sobering too ...very nice last verse.

Chloe