Poetica Obscura: Seawater Wine and Monster Ballads
These poems are from a series inspired by reading Atlas Obscura stories while listening to a music genre randomly selected from my list. The poems were written immediately after reading, still while listening to the randomly chosen music. I frequently post these to Medium. Please share, click the clapping hands below, or help support a writer if you enjoy these.
Why Winemakers Are Adding Seawater to Their Wines
(article here)
monster ballads
there’s a girl in white lingerie
dancing on the hood of your car
you say this happens all the time
it explains the times a ghost
has run right through our bed
baby, she’s the one
that always leads me back to you
you call me back for old times’ sake
here I brought the wine we used to like
I guess there was a time I liked my wine
to be brackish, the taste a little seasick
I ask you about that girl we saw
dancing on your car
she’s nothing to me
she’s just a pure ideal
of what beauty is to me
I spit out my wine
I leave to buy some lingerie
and have my hair blown out
and I never come back
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