In a red riding hood,
The poker faced daughter searching for the wolf in disguise.
With hair frizzing out of the oven like flames,
The witch with bad girl meat.
In Scarlet to meet the Queen,
The Queen herself.
See her
Painted Claws
Satin Paws
Talons
Black Feathers
Bird Nest Hair
Diamanté
Ruffle
Crystal Glitter Gauze Chain Mask Sequin
Pearls and purple teardrops stuck to cheeks
Blood spurting over a bodice of white lace.
They take away her dress
EXPOSURE
She has nothing to bare
Barbed wire heart on pillow
Yellow tape branded body
CRIME SCENE
Leopardskin Antlers Lamé Armour
Lycra
Leather
Lace
Platforms Plastic Peroxide
Synthetic Hide
Fishnet Ribbing
Lipstick Appendage Glasses
Eyes Skin Bones Glitter Gloves
From flames
From water
Emerging, emerged
Lavender blonde
Fanged
Masked in mirrors
This reflection reflecting
G
A
G
A
Here I am
Lady Gaga,
The Queen of all the little Monsters.
Author Bio: Andrea Quinlan has an MA in Art History. Her work has been published in Defect Perfection Literary Review.
maybe i'm just being old-fashioned but i think poetry has to has some sort of cohesive metre, otherwise it simply becomes prose which has been arranged uniquely on the page.
ReplyDeletefree verse
ReplyDelete–noun Prosody .
verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern.
I would say that attitude (of Anonymous one) is very outmoded indeed, and neglects the wide variety of contemporary poetics over the past, oh, one hundred years or so!
ReplyDelete"The poet who writes 'free' verse is like Robinson Crusoe on his desert island: he must do all his cooking, laundry and darning for himself. In a few exceptional cases, this manly independence produces something original and impressive, but more often the result is squalor - dirty sheets on the unmade bed and empty bottles on the unswept floor." - W.H. Auden
ReplyDeleteThe attitude in the quotation begs the question: should poetry--or any sort of art--be a perfectly tidy house?
ReplyDeleteSeems quite oppositional to the stance of Gaga, for one!
I think this poem represents Lady Gaga perfectly, she is by no means tidy and follows a pattern!
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