Bull's Eye
By Steve Button
Sat, 21 Aug 2010
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It stared up at me,
the lidless eye in thick white fat,
a fixed look
of one-eyed surprise.
The object
was dissection, to get at
how this unseeing eye worked,
peer and poke
into its liquid mechanics.
The girls swooned,
the swots
pored over it.
I paused,
raised my fist then
thumped it down,
watched the thick fluid
splatter,
thought the girls
would be impressed.
They didn’t seem to get
my aqueous humour.
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This is good, especially the
Permalink Submitted by Luly Whisper on
This is good, especially the pun in the last line. Never read a poem on this subject before.
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The joke at the end makes
The joke at the end makes this for me. Perhaps that means I have retained my schoolboy's idea of what's amusing.
Perhaps I'm just old-fashioned but I don't get the line breaks and the structure. It doesn't really fit with the flow of the narrative. I know that there's a fashion for making a 'pattern on the page' but apart from the 3-lined presentation, does it really do so?
I think a structure is better if it emphasises those things that the writer wants to emphasise. Therefore I can see why 'splatter' get's its own line but on that basis, perhaps 'swooned' should too.
Anyway, ignoring all my quibbles, it's still very good.
Helvigo Jenkins
Helvigo Jenkins
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This is great. Very funny :)
Permalink Submitted by staticshakedown on
This is great. Very funny :)
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It made me squirm and laugh,
It made me squirm and laugh, really good.
Louise
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