Picaroon Poetry - Issue #1 - March 2016
Picaroon Poetry is a new web journal for rogue poems. Issue #1 includes work by Orooj-e-Zafar, iDrew, Shane Vaughan, David Spicer, Susan Castillo Street, Neil Fulwood, Brett Evans, Amy Kinsman, Dean Rhetoric, Johanna Boal, Carole Bromley, Alyson Miller, Robert Crisp, Chris Hemingway, Rachel Nix, Jennifer A. McGowan, Bethany W Pope, Grant Tarbard, Hannah Pyne, Marilyn Hammick, and Mary Stone.
Picaroon Poetry is a new web journal for rogue poems.
Issue #1 includes work by Orooj-e-Zafar, iDrew, Shane Vaughan, David Spicer, Susan Castillo Street, Neil Fulwood, Brett Evans, Amy Kinsman, Dean Rhetoric, Johanna Boal, Carole Bromley, Alyson Miller, Robert Crisp, Chris Hemingway, Rachel Nix, Jennifer A. McGowan, Bethany W Pope, Grant Tarbard, Hannah Pyne, Marilyn Hammick, and Mary Stone.
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Fallon<br />
Bethany W Pope<br />
You were wounded, demented, a bad little girl,<br />
Grinning as you slid your fingers into me.<br />
I never thought I'd catch myself praying for your soul<br />
After you told me that, now, I could never be loved. My small<br />
Body was a canvass for your vengeance;<br />
You were wounded, demented, a bad little girl<br />
Still angry at your mommy for selling you to tall,<br />
Grown men whose cocks (you said) tasted like pee.<br />
I never thought I'd catch myself praying for your soul<br />
When, years later, you let your filthy orange urine fall<br />
Into my mouth as you used your woven belt to choke me.<br />
You were wounded, demented, a bad little girl,<br />
And I was unsurprised when I learned you'd landed in jail,<br />
Though the crime they nailed you for was unrelated to rape.<br />
I never thought I'd catch myself praying for your soul,<br />
When I spent the night vomiting after giving my all<br />
Attempting to pleasure the man that I love, but this is true:<br />
You were wounded, demented, a sad little girl<br />
And I just caught myself praying for your soul.
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