Demonstration I

Edward Moore (c) 2014

Revenge is her motive.

~ Beowulf

I.

Talk of a new life

Conceals apathy

Talk of feelings

Costs money

Watching a bold face

Smile across table

Knowing all the time

That she will demur

When the stark face is shown

A capacity

For evil in which

You ignorantly

Disblieve ...

Then!

Her fingers tighten round my throat

As I recall all the past

I make it a ceremony

Fools like me don't deserve to live.

II.

Forgiveness: a Christian virtue.

She is a barbarian

Ready to cleave spleens and skulls

And make art out of my suff'ring

Does she suffer?

Of course not.

III.

You smile at your spermatic

LOGOS

And ignore love as it works

Intently upon your deadened

Mind.

IV.

Partakers of the repast

They hailed him as the best of men

The fall of their lord cut them

To the quick

They cried

Knowing his love was lost

To the grave

Unburdened was his soul.

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