Monday, April 09, 2007

Filias Pater Sine Nomine


Ophelia was a rebel girl,
A blue stocking suffragette
Who remedied society
Between her cigarettes

Ophelia was a sweetheart
To the nation overnight
Curvaceous thighs
Vivacious eyes
Love was at first sight...
Ophelia was a demigoddess

In pre-war Babylon
So statuesque,
a silhouette
In black satin evening gowns


Ophelia was the mistress to

aVegas gambling man
Signora Ophelia,

Maraschina,

Mafia courtesan

Ophelia was a circus queen
The female cannonball
Projected through

five flaming hoops
To wild and shocked
applause...

Ophelia was a cyclone, tempest
A goddamned hurricane
Your common sense
Your best defense
Lay wasted and in vain

Ophelia'd know your every woe
And pain you'd ever had
She'd sympathize,

dry your eyes
And help you to forget...

Ophelia's men were wondering
wondering where she'd gone
Through secret doors
Down corridors
She'd wander them alone
All alone...


http://http://www.naic.edu/~gibson/pleiades/pleiades_myth.html

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I love Ophelia, and of course you've heard Natalie Merchant's song titled "Ophelia?"

Is that where this writing came from?
Love you...
-La