Mum, By a Bear I Am Being Eaten
On a mobile phone a distraught mother listens
How her teenage daughter was being torn and eaten
Alive by a bear and its three children. In her own voice
She cried and said, “Mum, by a bear I am being eaten”
A nineteen year old Olga gave almost an hour-long
Running commentary about her agony all along
In three separate calls very, very disheartening
She cried and said, ”Mum, by a bear I am being eaten”.
In second call she said, “The bear left and came back”
With her cubs and are eating me with renewed attack”
Hearing this any mother would have died there and then
She cried and said, “Mum, by a bear I am being eaten”
In third call she said, “Mum, it is not hurting anymore
Now I don’t feel any pain, mum, everything is over
Forgive me, love you so much” the call cut and deadened
She cried and said, “Mum, by a bear I am being eat"
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April 24, 2014
Formj: Kyrielle
Seventh Place win
Contest: Helpless by Cindy Macmillan
The rhyme-scheme: aabB, ccbB, ddbB,eebB
In a recent event Olga Moskalyova, 19, gave a horrific hour-long running commentary
on her own death in three separate calls to her mother as the wild animals mauled
her in the village of Termalniy, near Petropavlovsk Kamchatskiy, in the extreme east
of Siberia, Russia. Her Stepfather was also killed in the brutal attack.
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