by Alex Gross
Innocent little girl walking.
She is preoccupied, at the moment with
An enigma which plagues all young girls
At a point. Which Barbie Doll do I want?
Another thought enters her head:
What’s for dinner?
Then:
What’s on TV tonight?
She goes on her merry way.
Along comes the intruder.
“Kill your father” it says.
The girl faces the intruder
Head-on.
“No” she says.
The intruder goes away.
But he doesn’t.
It plagues the little girl’s mind.
She can’t get away from it, no matter
What.
She can’t look at her father
Without being filled with fear.
The intruder visits her every day.
Sometimes, it says “Kill your
Brother” or some other.
Sometimes, it tells her to burn the
American flag, or a crucifix.
Sometimes, it wants her to hump that
Dog’s leg instead of him doing it to some human.
Finally’ the intruder becomes too much.
The intruder has visited every one.
It’s only the people who listen to it; the
Innocent little girls Of the world
Who pay any mind to it.
The thing is, those little girls don’t
Do what the intruder says, they
Take their own lives instead.
Alex Gross
Copyright ©:
2011 by Alex Gross
A few random poems:
- Владимир Корнилов – Прямота
- Epitaph on a Tyrant by W. H. Auden
- A Prayer For My Son by William Butler Yeats
- Black Stone On Top Of Nothing by Philip Levine
- Before You Returned by Shahida Latif
- Inscriptions In The Ground Of Coleorton, The Seat Of Sir George Beaumont, Bart., Leicestershire by William Wordsworth
- To Christina, Queen of Sweden poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Final Notions
- I waited by Raj Arumugam
- The Gadfly poem – John Keats poems
- Николай Заболоцкий – Битва с предками
- Study in Hands by Théophile Gautier
- Владимир Костров – Вот избушка
- We Astronomers by Rebecca Elson
- Robert Burns: The Laddie’s Dear Sel’:
External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
Talking Writing Monster’s Page –
Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh
Poems in English
- Erin, Oh Erin by Thomas Moore
- Enigma by Thomas Moore
- Echo by Thomas Moore
- Drink To Her by Thomas Moore
- Drink of This Cup by Thomas Moore
- Did Not by Thomas Moore
- Dialogue Between a Sovereign and a One-Pound Note by Thomas Moore
- Desmond’s Song by Thomas Moore
- Dear Harp of my Country by Thomas Moore
- Cotton and Corn by Thomas Moore
- Come, Send Round the Wine by Thomas Moore
- Come, Rest in this Bosom by Thomas Moore
- Come O’er the Sea by Thomas Moore
- By That Lake, Whose Gloomy Shore by Thomas Moore
- Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms by Thomas Moore
- Befire the Battle by Thomas Moore
- Avenging and Bright by Thomas Moore
- At the Mid Hour of Night by Thomas Moore
- As Vanquish’d Erin by Thomas Moore
- As Slow Our Ship by Thomas Moore
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)
Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.
Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees
Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.
Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.
Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works
