Kai Michael Neumann Poet Free verse

Notes About The Poem

Paul and Paula as well as Ruby and Rosa are real people.

I changed their names, although they would not mind if I did not.

They are pretty 'un-desperate- d' now and have changed some positions or other.

Life is about a whole mix of passions and I believe about freedom...

 

Desperadas

Sometimes some lost and lonely housewife I know well and knew put glossy
lip stick on and subtle pastel shade mascara plucked his brows and shaved
the pits of desperation the dust and grime the secretive desire longing
He cleaned the oven layered peeled the onion emerged in mouth watering
cheese cakes mixed the sweet and sour chilly icing with fresh fromage 
fermenting homage to a new beginning of transition from the desperation

Not my cup of tea the make up with tattoos the belly ring and 
hairy monsters on his pectoral and deltoid muscles but the pastry
pasted shaken not so pious pies tasted passionate the scent of musky
mushroom vanilla cinnamon the whole cliché of home made cooking 
steaks for power sweet desert aphrodisiac temptations for the palate 
palace coup palladium palliating plights of unforeseen façade and masquerade

Defeating gender stereotypes and prejudice his wife left broom cuisine 
and cruising hoovers steely wool to his resolve and elbow grease but the 
good partner who she was helped with the dishes when the dishy romance
ceased to be when both of them were desperate shattered broken devastated 
wives and house mates 

Their Pandora’s box the can of wriggly worms once opened left his bosom swell
his skin and features soften the pheromones transform their scent aroma
tone and meter of their conversation pitched up once the vocal chords strung higher
and he cut the naval chord which boxed him for so long in a body of a stranger

My friend and desperate house wife Paul is Paula now and she lives with her girl
another gender convert and is not incarcerated not desperate any longer she is free
Her ex-wife Ruby lives with Rosa now transcending yet another artificial boundary in rapturous coming of time and liberation and I love them dearly just the same 


19th June 2016

Written for contest: Desperate Housewife

Sponsor Poet Destroyer A

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Richard Lamoureux July 3, 2016 at 8:31 AM For me this one is the best of the bunch. I'm glad I took the time to read through the list. Finding this one made the time worth while. Congrats on your winning poem. Kai Michael Neumann July 4, 2016 at 10:34 AM Thank you so much. Life writes real stories.

Poet Destroyer A July 2, 2016 at 11:52 PM kai M, Congratulations on your Desperate House Wife WIN. I thank you for writing for my contest. Stop by my latest blog "UNION OF DISGUISING FACES "HZ1" blog #2." if you'd like. Always & Forever ~LINDA~ Kai Michael Neumann July 3, 2016 at 8:11 AM Thank you for your contest, for your comment and for your encouragement, Kai