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Jake

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Ode to a Centipede
« on: June 09, 2005, 01:47:20 AM »
Have to do this one in code tags. Written a few days ago. Hope to here some good feedback yet again. Don't look too deep though, lucid and simple is key.

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Ode to a Centipede

Last night in a
drunken
haze
I spotted a
c
e
n
t
i
p
e
d
e
passively creeping on the den of
my
tub. After some
struggle
I captured the ferocious beast  
(shielding my hands with a
Kleenex tissue)
and threw it down into the
abyss
rapidly flushing the blue-dyed water
preventing all escape. Mind at ease, I settled for the
night.

Awakened by a steady pressure
I quickly ran to the bathroom,
and what do I see!?
My rival
my enemy
the persistent beast was swimming in the blue-dyed water
waiting for me.  

(Persistence: I don't know what it was,
maybe its will to live was stronger than mine…)

The shock was unnerving – I almost
lost it.
(deep breath one; deep breath two)
Collected, the solution like pressure burst in my mind.
I opened the pajama pant fly,
aimed
and relieved. The beast had no chance,
hit square on the head
(more or less)
with a sound stream of  amber colored liquid waste.
The now green colored water swallowed it whole:
dreams
desires
and all.

Death by piss, what a nasty way to go.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

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« Reply #1 on: June 09, 2005, 03:26:56 AM »
this is really good. it's creative and descriptive without being boring.

i'd get rid of the last line though... it's uselessly redundant. the second-to-last line fits better, anyway. but obviously it's your poem so you can make whatever changes you feel like making. :)

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« Reply #2 on: June 09, 2005, 08:58:36 AM »
This didn't really happen right? btw the poem is really good. Got kind of nasty towards the end though.

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« Reply #3 on: June 09, 2005, 10:19:06 AM »
Awesome.  And don't remove the last line... I think it sums it up nicely.

Jake

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« Reply #4 on: June 09, 2005, 11:24:36 AM »
Thanks guys, I'm glad you liked it :)

>>This didn't really happen right?<<

and if it did? ;) inspiration appears in odd places, hehe.  

>>Got kind of nasty towards the end though.<<

to some it might seem sublime ;)

>>And don't remove the last line... I think it sums it up nicely.<<

I think so too.

thanks again guys :)
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« Reply #5 on: June 09, 2005, 11:43:33 AM »
That's really good. :thumbsup:
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?.

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« Reply #6 on: June 09, 2005, 12:15:50 PM »
I told you not to ask me last night -- I really like it now, though. Very good :)