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:
- Looking For a Sunset Bird in Winter by Robert Frost
- The Prison Of The Past
- Crapulous Impression poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
- Наум Коржавин – К моему двадцатипятилетию
- Валерий Брюсов – Из наблюдений
- Николай Карамзин – Из письма к И. И. Дмитриеву (Но что же скажем мы о времени прошедшем)
- Love Of Life poem – Alfred Austin
- On Passing The New Menin Gate by Siegfried Sassoon
- Михаил Лермонтов – Чаша жизни
- Владимир Маяковский – Стихи из предсмертной записки
- In David’s “Child’s Garden Of Verses” by Sara Teasdale
- English Poetry. Charles Lockhart. Epistle to a Friend, with a Copy of Burns’s Letters. Чарльз Локкарт. Послание другу при возвращении ему томиков стихов Бернса
- Михаил Ломоносов – Надпись 5 к статуе Петра Великого
- It Is No Spirit Who From Heaven Hath Flown by William Wordsworth
- The Inheritance by Thomas J Camp
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
- Аля Кудряшева – Если ты, к примеру, кролик с шелковистыми ушами
- Аля Кудряшева – Двадцать перышек за плечами
- Аля Кудряшева – Дождь напевает, искрясь по зарослям
- Алишер Навои – Уже белеет голова
- Алишер Навои – Украсишь ты свой наряд красным
- Алишер Навои – У пери — точка вместо уст
- Алишер Навои – То не заросли тюльпанов
- Алишер Навои – Сверкнула в темноте ночной краса
- Алишер Навои – Стихотворные жемчужины
- Алишер Навои – Соловей, лишенный розы, умолкает, не поет
- Алишер Навои – Словно зеркало, сияет лик твой
- Алишер Навои – Скиталец горький, страсть таю я
- Алишер Навои – Сердце взял мое сын мага
- Алишер Навои – Сердце кровью из ран обагрить я сумел
- Алишер Навои – Пустословя на минбаре
- Алишер Навои – Птицу-сердце полонила нежных локонов силком
- Алишер Навои – Поучительные заветы старости
- Алишер Навои – Осрамился я
- Алишер Навои – Он любить мне запрещает
- Алишер Навои – О таинствах любви
More external links (open in a new tab):
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Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.
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