Hooked

 “Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives’ tales as to what is to become of him afterward, and you have hooked a fish, a mental slave.”
– Theodore Dreiser

The following is a poem from an exceptionally talented new friend, Arne Tornek. Enjoy.

 

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The hook slicks in.

How easily she snags.

How tightly she tugs.

 

She knows no surrender.

Long in exile, she returns,

To lead you to forgotten rooms.

 

In a careless moment

She sucks the tongue from your mouth.

Coils it round your demon need,

Slips it back behind your lips.

 

You swallow her hard.

Scornfully, she sniggers at you.

Knows that you can’t do without her,

In spite of your painstaking

Hopeless attempts.

 

She washes over your mind like an old friend,

With the comforting allure of a new lover.

And she’s back with her pedicure

In the ring of your desires;

Your powerless soul at prayer

Under the Gothic arch of her painted foot.

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