The BlueIris Semi-Nightly Poetry Break, 1/11/08 (warning: very graphic language)

[BlueIris]

"The Rapist's Daughter"

Even with your nanny  
pushing you  
back and forth  
in your pram, I watch you 
from the penthouse window  
overlooking the park.  

After I touched your mother, 
after I put enough of myself  
inside her 
to make you more than an idea 
I went out 
and hated with all my heart;  

I wanted to get rid of this 
hot rage between my legs  
but each pair of pleading  
eyes just fueled the fire.  

It can happen to any man. 
And so I keep watching.  
This nine millimeter I rub 
like my hard dick is for you  

when you get  
to that certain age 
when fatherly feeling  
slips into desire  

this gun will be  
worth more to you  
than I am. 

—Hortensia Anderson

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Yikes!

That is one upsetting poem...

Very sick, IMHO...

What kind of person would write something like this?

Too much...

[BlueIris]

2. I think the author was trying to make people think about the sick minds of rapists

in a serious way. Maybe that should have been "very graphic language..."

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. I see your point...

About what intentions the author had, I mean...

I knew it was going to be graphic...

Even if you'd said "very graphic" I would still have read it...

[BlueIris]

4. Well, sorry if it freaked you out.

[ismnotwasm]

5. Goddam

That's a tough one Blue

Unfortunately it reminds me of too many current events. I wish it didn't.

[BlueIris]

6. Kick.

[Taverner]

7. Wow

Just wow...

Painful - I wouldn't say beautiful, but haunting and striking.

Like a red hot lead poker to the soul

[BlueIris]

8. Kick.

[BlueIris]

9. Kick.

[MonkeyFunk]

10. No matter how many times you kick it yourself

it's still entirely inappropriate for DU.

[RetroLounge]

20. And you are now the lounge poetry net-nanny?

:eyes:

RL

[BlueIris]

11. Kick.

[RetroLounge]

12. Wow...

Just... Wow...

RL

[MonkeyFunk]

14. You'd be hard-pressed to find

a more ardent defender of free speech than I am.... but this is suck poetry and I'm amazed it's allowed here.

[RetroLounge]

15. Yeah, whatever...

Guess you're not so ardent after all...

Good poetry sometimes hits a nerve.

RL

[MonkeyFunk]

16. yes

"good" poetry does.

[RetroLounge]

18. Instead of being a schmuck

try Alert, Ignore, or Hide thread...

Then get help for whatever button this poem pushes.

Otherwise you're just being a dick.

RL

[BlueIris]

17. Thanks for trying, Retro.

[RetroLounge]

19. Well, you know it's a good poem

when it brings out the loonies...

RL

[BlueIris]

21. I'm surprised that my threads don't have more hecklers, actually.

[SPKrazy]

13. That's

a wild poem

but very good

:thumbsup:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

22. Like the Beatles said --

Happiness is a warm gun.
Bang.Bang. Shoot.Shoot.

Art, like humor is subjective and not always meant to elicit "oh, how beautiful." Not everything in life is beautiful and art reflects that, as it should.

[RetroLounge]

24. Very well put...

:hi:

RL

[Tuesday Afternoon]

25. I try...

thanks.

:hi:

[ThomCat]

23. Wow. That is definitely intense.

I know that when the woman knows who the rapist is he's certainly going to know if she got pregnant and had a child. Still, the idea of a rapist knowing anything, feeling anything, planning anything is very disturbing. :(

This is amazingly well written. Ms. Anderson but a lot of thougth into the style and grace of this poem, and made it very successfully creepy. Not just the subject, but also the execution.

Wow.