Category Archives: original poetry

BODY PARTS.

March 6, 2025creative writing, original poetry, Uncategorizedruth ann scanzillo

[ formerly titled “Stinkbug.” ]

You tear out

the muscle cells of her heart;

she carries them home,

so like mussel shells,

in the palms of her hands

You wrench apart

desperately clasped arms

and nail them to your crucifying cross

kneeling beneath

her feet

you cast lots on the discarded fabric

of her hope

as she hangs

crooked bent and breaking

The demented

would marry her at once

mocking every deathbed sacrament

while Bohemians

who leave the upper crust

in dust

all turn their chins

away from ebbing breath.

Hot urine

comforting her lurching thighs

the bedsheets swaddle them

in wracking dreams

You, just and

just again beyond her reach

One stinkbug

on its back

and soil sustaining worms await

Her finally succumbing sleep.

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Protected: The Freezer.

July 10, 2023arts education, creative writing, education, human behavior, humor, light verse, original poetry, original poetry/ light verse, original poetry/light verse, psychology, sociology, UncategorizedBushman from Babbitt, died in a freezer, July 10 2023ruth ann scanzillo

Cry

December 13, 2022original poetry, Uncategorizedruth ann scanzillo

A woman needs

an idol

too long pushed down

by dogma

told to be demure.

and, why

give her a man

to lust after

that she cannot have

then, try

to tell her

how to feel

and, who to be.

No.

Just

let her

Cry.

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