ouch

pretty kitty saboteur

skulled my Don Quixote heart

like arsenic stew

with a metal baseball bat thud

on the backside;

 

she Vangoed my puffy cartoon clouds

into back-thorn devil flames,

 

samed my pseudo originals,

framed my watercolor tears,

speared my squirmy heart

like a glowing little fish

darting about in his

heavenly mud puddle

dreams of an ornate

Forever,

 

and, trollishly gobbled him up

in front of my rainy windows

with piranha teeth

and relentless lioness eyes.

 

an anvil goodbye

acid dropped onto my

faded yellow smiley.

 

it’s going to take a Buddha soul

with Jesus hands

to spatula this smashed Kafka bug

from the abstract concrete,

and fluff him back into

Muhammad’s Gabriel,

 

and, even then,

the magic will never dance

like it did when

all my best songs

were about her.

 

 

Reviews

[Mockingbird]

phenomenal use of adjectives and verbs. an artistic way to express how someone broke your heart. your allusions show you are quite literary. the title makes someone expect it will be short and blunt, but then we get a wonderful painting of a poem. great piece.

[Brandon S. Whitten]

A-mazing!

[Ruth]

Darn right bam!
This is excellent, apt title and very clever imagery! Excellent work xoxo

[Chris]

One hell of a woman... Tim you don't get over "forces-of-nature", you just accept you got "touched"!

[bob, small b. aka invs]

in this poem you seem like the dennis miller of poetry, stacking up allusions one upon another. anybody who can squeeze buddha, jesus, kafka and mohammad all in none short verse is ok by me. interesting writing.

[Emily B]

do you ever hear somebody singin the blues and accidentally smile instead of nodding concernedly? . . . blues-singers have no sense of humor usually