Let Us Not Forget The Murder of Miriam
They forgot to mention
that Snow White
was a Jew
and her pale skin
was really a disease
from the tanning beds
and oil shopping-spree
but no one joked
that it was He who
created leprosy
they forgot to mention
that Snow White
was a prophetess
and that each seven dwarfs
were really each
day of the week
depending on
which drug had peaked
during an exiled week
stimulation
never had a chance
to come clean
what they forgot to mention
about Snow White
was that He watched her dance
and He possessed the Queen
and two is never enough
cause three is always right
and when I speak to you
I am really speaking of
a third thing
and it was just
three drops of blood
that birthed Snow White
cause nothing taste
as bitter as a woman
begging HIM
for just a fucking child
so that mothers
can look at daughters
instead of mirrors
for the cyborg fountain of youth.
Art By: Serge Bloch "The Enemy"
Poetry By: I.E.L
stimulation
never had a chance
to come clean
what they forgot to mention
about Snow White
was that He watched her dance
and He possessed the Queen
and two is never enough
cause three is always right
and when I speak to you
I am really speaking of
a third thing
and it was just
three drops of blood
that birthed Snow White
cause nothing taste
as bitter as a woman
begging HIM
for just a fucking child
so that mothers
can look at daughters
instead of mirrors
for the cyborg fountain of youth.
Art By: Serge Bloch "The Enemy"
Poetry By: I.E.L
3 comments:
"It is not a poem about the three of them as individuals, but about the geometrical figure formed by their perception of one another, and the gaps in that perception. It is an image of the distances between them. Thin lines of force coordinate the three of them. Along one line travels the girl's voice and laughter to a man who listens closely. A second tangent connects the girl to the poet. Between the eye of the poet and the listening man crackles a third current. The figure is a triangle. Why?"
(anne carson)
instead of three people existing in order to create a triangle, why does a triangle form just between two people.
within a discussion of two people instead of talking with each other, to each other, conversations tend to become talking at each other by using a third component to connect. perhaps this happens because it is not human nature to fully connect ( and i say this in regards to touch, one never actually touches anything for there are so many layers unseen to the eye that divides pure touch) yet at the same time when two people who truly enjoy the company of the other and can in fact talk to each other in some sense they still create a space of a third ( divinity of love? still questioning space created) yet it is not that they are in love with each other but in love with love or that space that is created.
P.S Thank you for that comment/ quote!!!!
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