Through the Eyes of Edgar
Beautiful Annabel Lee
How enticing you must have been
To inspire such words of adoration and love
And provoke the angels to sin.
Corseted
by fate
and circumstance
misunderstanding
may further muddle
one's prospects.
In the end
Love
makes equal
fools of us all.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
You saw your picture
And
like a mirror
It changed that which
You
held most dear
Still you sinned as
You
felt you must
Until your beauty...
...Turned to dust
Hamlet.
Shakespeare stars a melancholy Danish prince, as his specimen of existential angst.
Bastion of fears
If you love
bureaucracy
and
writer’s block
fear,
self-loathing
and frustrating
hassle,
skip the Trial
and
all that cock
and
storm
instead
K’s
labyrinthine
Castle.
This All Happened More or Less
All that has been,
All that will be,
The slaughterhouse,
The mundane marriage,
The zoo enclosure,
The ally bombs,
The deaths theirs, yours,
In no particular order,
So it goes
Call Me Ishmael
Moby's a dick,
the captain is sick,
and the first mate has his own coffee conglomerate.
Godot, In Situ
This poem is about to become poignant.
Any moment now, something great will happen.
I'll wait for one stanza and then finish.
Hm. Nothing happened. Well, I'll just wait then.
1984
In a world of fear, there was love.
Of Pride and Prejudice
Elizabeth held mighty and high
Till Pemberley came to sight,
Perhaps Mr. Darcy would have stayed a bachelor
If he had not met his match traveler.