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Bugsy

Confidence fades away Clothes to the wind My cracking glass, the nightscape Contorted into vixen reds and apparition dark Seventeen Kitsch eyes, as kitsch as a child Crying in a kitchen scene over spilt milk Shrinking under giant flaming wings of a morbid sun god A flower in the rocks craving eleemosynary of sunlit droplets Dew sticking heavy, a glue to papier-mâché the fine parasol Poverty of any subtle scintella, a florid propinquity or velleity Slinking into the puissant moon dust but with all the style Of a dead inurement Sickert slick My sui generis malapropisms Cruel bowdlerization of a grouping wall and night The hard outer shell of flesh The ladybug, the thumb The ladybird and stupid shibboleth. _ Daffy, I said I'd write something called Bugsy :D

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Date: 9/26/2009 6:28:00 PM
This is the third time this has happened... are you still oooon??
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Date: 9/20/2009 7:44:00 PM
you still on? I'll be on PS chat
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Date: 9/18/2009 5:14:00 PM
wow I have never seen so many words I didn't know in one place LOL Kitschy/cheap ..eleemosynary???propinquity ??velléité/wish?Sickert?A malapropism is so called after Mrs. Malaprop, a character noted for her amusing misuse of words in Richard Brinsley Sheridan's comedy The Rivals ...bowdlerisation/literary censorship; written work that has been bowdlerized (named after Thomas Bowdler who published a censored version of Shakespeare's works)Wowser! Light & Love
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Date: 9/13/2009 5:58:00 PM
if you're there get on PS chat!
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Date: 9/12/2009 9:23:00 AM
Amazing use of language, Nathaniel. Sad sentiments expressed ever so creatively with "My sui generis malapropisms." You made Daffy happy and I really enjoyed making my way through this work! Love, Carolyn
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Date: 9/12/2009 8:54:00 AM
Lol... you had me swimming all over the dictionary for this one. I love it though, especially these lines : "Crying in a kitchen scene over spilt milk Shrinking under giant flaming wings of a morbid sun god" This is beautiful. LOVE THE TITLE lol... talk to you soon, Bugsy m'dear. Daffy
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