Today on Three Word
Wednesday we were given three words:
Acrid, Bane, Tepid
At first I thought, “What
on Earth can I do with these words?” The first line just flowed onto the page
and it felt as if the rest of it was destiny.
Thanks, Thom, for
introducing me to these two characters and their lives, which are perhaps more
like the average person’s life than we really now.
Her name was Acrid
Her coarse red hair sliced
her lovers
Before they could feel her
skin
"Stand back" her
scent ordered
Yet there was something in
her pungent
Flavor that aroused those
certain
Boys, that caused them to
flail,
helplessly, as her lengthy
russet
tresses drew blood and her
breasts
waited, untouched,
wanting, pure
His name was Bane
Acrid was his aim
He brought a scythe and
wore a hood
He crushed her shivering
mane
and silenced her skin's
crys
for touch and in those stolen
few moments, they felt,
together
what bliss was like
Until that moment when
Bane's destruction
combined with Acrid's
bitter aftertaste
they became tepid,
together
just another suburban
couple
looking for some form of
satisfaction
in SUV's and little league
and bunco
and the occasional
Parent-Teacher conference
at night, especially, they
wondered
if that brief memory
actually happened
when Bane and Acrid were
beyond
words beautiful
I think of everything you have written, this is my favorite. You made the words living things! Loved everything about it but the first three lines had me hooked!
Posted by: Dee | July 12, 2010 at 05:53 PM