Death by vagina.

would be 10, but i balk at the physical :-).

Strange, but nicely voiced.

Maybe too cryptic. I can see how it might cathartic somehow, but - "what's in it for me?" "audible hint of condemnation"... what is that, exactly? Interesting even after my gripes, has a nice cadence - I just want it to mean something without too much trouble (some, is fine).

"and of your beauty and grace." meter needs tweekin, maybe... : "your beauty and your grace" Good for what it is.

I can relate. I'm a stripper. Bittersweet.

Christ, that was bleak... What the fuck is wrong with you? Pickled?

nice. the last line really makes it, where the rest of the poem had felt "pretty but pointless". the one rough edge that throws me is "mostly long gone".

this is one of the best i've read in a while

you kidding? last line + 'five course dinner' is linchpin (see title)

wow makes me think of my last relationship. wow

i love this!!!!! very deep.dark.sexy.

Kerry... what is he, some kind of politican? 9 for chutzpah

cryptic likes a monkey

my preferred translation of your luscious title is 'death melts everything' (6 years of Latin not for nothing)... if only this were a poem about microwaves.

i never really noticed.

very......aaahhhhhh.....intriguing

"mostly long gone." lose 'long' when you edit next.

And how you can insert Birch trees into a contemporary vagina monologue is appalling, not that I can spell appaling, but I think I took a clean drunk stab at it.

Not all...