Scarlet's Poetry Den "Litany of Scars - Notes to a Missing Lover"

Prologue (Listen to the poem in RealAudio G2)

imperious as ever
I sit atop my dictionaries
praying they won't blow my brain to bits
before I have my say in Armageddon

a caricature of Joan of Arc
I will dance midst the battle
with my top hat and cane
write the Book of Scarlet
tack it onto the end of Revelations

almost a love poem
almost a story
a lot of things
perhaps a temper tantrum

it is whatever heart I have left breaking
the pen is bleeding all over the page

but, even after the joker
the poet always has the last laugh

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Last updated on September 6, 1999
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