Girl Babylon~

~one of those uneven nights~

Now

That you’ve coaxed me from my shell

What will you do

With a girl

Whose arms unfold into eight distinct notes

Plucking atomic love from the nucleus of matter

And does it matter

How I bend my music to the will of the tides

While a cat’s cradle undulates by

With the threads of a modern day Moses

Who will one day find his mind inside a bottle

Of hard liquor

At the end of skid row

In tow

To his holy insanity

A Madonna dipped in hemlock

Following the pound of his staff

Against the eventide of endz

Blaring through the windows of dirty love

Commercials for extenz

Tipped the top hat of reason

To good ol’ Abe Lincoln rolling over in his grave

A stage in his eyes

Reflecting silk

Spinners pouring

Through the edges of his coffin

While I while away the underbelly of this final grace

My Thai limbs drenched in gold

Thighs around the sorrel belly of the sky

Eight arms in rubies wrapped around the waist

Of Wounded Knee

Atop, the Mesa at the third pluck of the string

A third eye in jade opens

On the Book of Revelations

From my mouth, glitter and confetti

From my palms, the open wounds of misrepresentation

My dance begins on a cloud

The Hopi Nation go about their day

Kachina dolls at eight points

Bodies pour out of a sandstorm

On knees

With locust eyes

Dust lies

I dance

Kali at my hip in steel

Pandora in my belly

Lilith in my sway

The w***e in my smile

Giving good word. . . .

“As ye think shall ye be” . . . .

And the corona of the sun flares

Burning words

Against the struggling atmosphere

MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH

 

Now that you’ve coaxed

A thousand of us from our shells

What will you do

With the messengers

 

Killing the beautiful delivery

Does not make the message vanish

Now does it

Only leaves another stain of Cain

On the patchwork soul of Man

 

 

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Reviews

[LilyT]

I wonder at times how such a tiny girl like you can harbor so much soul.

My Thai limbs drenched in gold
Thighs around the sorrel belly of the sky
Eight arms in rubies wrapped around the waist
Of Wounded Knee
Atop, the Mesa at the third pluck of the string
A third eye in jade opens
On the Book of Revelations
From my mouth glitter and confetti
From my palms the open wounds of misrepresentation
My dance begins on a cloud

You're Pandora's Box, my lovely woman.

[Celeste21]

W omen's power is underestimated, but time and time again, with each generation there is a man who is falling for a woman. "A Madonna dipped in hemlock.." If only women knew how much power/ control we actually have...

[Ed Hart]

if i was on the other end of these words, i would play my heart drum and watch you dance until the gods came for us

[Kerry O'Connor]

In the end all female deities are ONE - all represent the many faces of WOMAN.
We are the womb of humanity - not much can beat that, one on one.
I read this as a celebration.

[Cafe Reader]

You can kill the messenger but . .
This reads like revelations for today.


Kali at my hip in steel
Pandora in my belly
Lilith in my sway
The w***e in my smile
Giving good word. . . .
“As ye think shall ye be” . . . .
And the corona of the sun flares

Burning words
Against the struggling atmosphere
MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH



You're incredible!

[Lilly Negoi]

brilliant! that mixture of Kali, Pandora, Lilith, is splendid :). and the ending lines are such a marvelous proof of wit...