A new poem (or at least a readable draft of a new poem), and with it a new blog: Mike Snider's Draft House. The new Blogger-native comments seem to require a Blogger account for non-anonymous commenting, and I've been wanting off-site storage for drafts of my poems, so I put the two together and now you can watch me floundering around as I try to make poems. The first set of drafts is here, and the result is right here:
Song: Memento Mori
Two men I know deserve to die,
But they and I
And all of us are mortal.
The first binds children to the rack
With junk and crack.
They learn they aren't immortal —
But not before they've been defiled
And borne his child,
Another mewling mortal.
The second drinks and beats his mother.
He calls me brother,
Since both of us are mortal.
When once I helped her to escape
She shouted "rape!"
Reminding me I'm mortal,
Like her, like both those men, like you,
Those children, too —
Denying that we're mortal.
