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Zipper Girl
Who knows I'm here?
The boogeyman that's who
The one with the knife
The one who'll come walking down the street
run across the grass to the window
bash it in
climb in
and cut me from head to toe
Huge slashing sweeps
My heart will fall out
I'll see it beating on the gravel
Pump pump
They'll find me smiling
Zipper Girl
Gutted in the early a.m. light
fingernails unmanicured,
chat dust in my hair
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| Creeped me out a bit. In a good way though. Disconcerting, yet captivating. |
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Comment by: - 2006-11-11 12:59
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'Chat dust in my hair' is the most important line here, Lolly. Before that, it's a Stephen King victim poem... but the last line (I think) shows that you chatted with him, even though you were fearing the grim reaper's sudden appearance. Anything is better than nothing...
I lived in Bradford (West Yorkshire, England) at the time that the Yorkshire Ripper was murdering women there. I saw the fear in everybody's faces... and yet I walked home from the city centre every night, to the Manningham area where he killed most of his victims, and yet I passed dozens of women in back aleyways - every night - offering their 'wares'.
I only mentioned that because it's true, and I've always wondered if any of those women became Peter Sutcliffe's victims. |
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| wonderful. i've missed these tales from lollyland. |
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Comment by: - 2006-09-19 08:27
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| Chat dust in my hair....great line...it is an eerie portrayal of a whacked killer...possibly internet stalker. Good stuff. -Leah |
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Comment by: Manda - 2006-09-17 07:53
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| jarring visual there but it's definitely good. always a cool thing to start at poem off with a question, gives the poem a wonderful way to jump off into the unknown. |
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