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Radiation Reflections (Free verse) by sarah

raging, remorseful, and rancid radiation in action even twenty years later it acts just like it hates her it abates her it agitates her it won't debate her and it will destroy her secondary unplanned damned diseases eating away at her as they pleases which of the organs will next get the wheezes? and which will be "it" to filch her to the freezers? it all berates me badly now the daughter she endowed so humble, bad, and proud i remember well holding her hair as she puked from the chemo that kept her here it allowed me a mother and kills her with care not to die with a shotgun, but dragged with despair raging, remorseful, and rancid radiation in action even twenty years later it acts just like it hates her it abates her it agitates her it won't debate her and it will destroy her

King Abdullah I 23-Apr-04/9:38 AM
Make your eyes look at this:

1. The quirky use of "as they pleases" instead of "as they please" to force a rhyme with the word "diseases" sounds like something Dr Seuss might have written;

2. The idea of a person's "organs" getting "the wheezes" sounds like the ill-advised joke of a red-faced provincial vicar;

3. The description of dying and being deposited in a mortuary as being "filched" to the "freezers" looks as though it was intended to raise a laugh;

4. The rest of the poem is similarly funny.

Are you genuine in saying that this poem was not intended to be light-hearted and/or amusing?





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