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'Ravenous Hugh'
how your tender couplets
now skew
love in all its briers
desire dipped in the goriest
of fires
mercy on her slab of regret
distance and insanity torched
your intent
walls of delusions you
just could not circumvent
and perhaps you really
didn't want to
so you saved yourself
and pressed a new page
trading prized fidelity of the time
for creative notoriety's rage
A serpent's escape
you lost so much footing
while down in the scrape
and in the shortened after ash
feminists rose and gave your
gutless morals the lash
politicized and ostracized
as you barked and bled
'tis a wonder you were
able enough to keep
yourself out of the red
but really what choice did you have
you were strung up like
a traitorous cad
women marched on their hate
over Ted
blaming you for the sickened
mind that killed that fragile bird
with The Bell Jar's lid.................
(April 25, 2011 635pm)