Poems from ALYZABETHNELLEN
This city never quite
Felt like mine
Cause some kids
Inhaled and exhaled
The politics and
The fire like oxygen
As necessary and natural...
I fell for her, fell hard, so swift and quick
As if it was an act of Aphrodite
Or being shot with Cupid’s Arrow
Again I say… I fell hard
I...
I know that you,and Patroclus,
tried to steal time from the Fates
But Achilles, the Fates are brutal
You ask what Hector has ever done...
Dark land ruled by an odd mix
Sailing through the clashing waves
Deep, past the River Styx
Further than Cerberus' Cave
There lies a...
Gorgon, they cry.
Hideous, repulsive, Terrible
So ugly she'd freeze you in your tracks-- forever.
But her ugliness is hard won
And she...