Clownish Scavenger (Based on Emilie Autumn's Scavenger)

    Clownish Scavenger
                                                   

 Bodies Dumped daily outside

   Bring me sweet, untainted warmth

        Biding my time, I examine

         Each ligament, every part

           Meticulous, I must be

      To succeed with revival

                                                   

    Snow litters this oasis

  Frothy white crystals fall fast

     Striving to whiten the gloom
Oh! this corpse smells like wet death

        It exudes a rotted stench

  Like Ophelia, she drowned.

           Her  golden curls shine brightly

          As her heart beats once again

        When my hands are placed

          On the core of her being

          This unholy resurrection

         Serves as a  perturbation

        To the constancy of death

                                                   

        But, I must acquire her heart

      While abruptly alive, she sings

      A woeful tune about death

     My ears can't bear this burden 

    Once the heart is torn asunder

    She'll stop her god-awful song

     Then resume her  eternal sleep

                                                         

         From a stone bridge, she slipped once,

          Caught in a rapturous dream,

       Soon,she  laid underneath the

             Arches of Moonlight and Sky

           This ephemeral fabric

      Of her tightly wound madness

        Strangled her till her abrupt death

        One sigh, one cry, then she died

                                                                 

       Laughing loudly, I drowned my

       Sentimental thoughts  alive

         No longer was she living

         With her lifeless heart in hand

      I savored my prize, my penance

       This was my conduct of life

      Playfully acting out death

    And being the jester to death

    Like Hamlet's much beloved clown

                                            

                                                   

   


                                                       
                                                           
                                                           
                               
Note: The poem is inspired partly by this fantastic Emilie Autumn song, from her album Fight Like a Girl.