Rimbaud’s Tiny Kisser
Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem
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It’s worse than that unsmiling mouth implies.
It’s more a grimness, executioner
Made flesh and teeth. If he were future-wise,
Arthur’d be an electrocutioner.
He’d love to pull the switch on yacht-like verse.
The alexandrine line sailed far too long
And elegant. He wanted something worse.
He wanted something like an outhouse, pong
And turds to smear around in freedom. That
Mouth cruelties and savageries adored.
It loved it when he made beauty go splat
As in a comic when the Joker scored.
..Compulsive in lips’ evil that mouth, small
…. And dense and set, determined to appall.