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Rated: E · Poetry · Other · #1778912
My entry for Hawk's Vocabulary Extravaganza for May 2011
To stab with shiv
or cleave with axe?
A last winsome smile
and two explicit acts.

Fallen she is placid
below death’s precipitous walls.
Disparage, or not, her obstinate killer,
exiguous and pretentious, in a hail of bullets he falls.
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