SpamPoetry, part V

In honor of the book Wide Sargasso Sea (which I was reminded of the other day when my wife and I discussed books we were forced to read in high school), today's Spampoem tells the story of Antionette Cosway and her disastrous marriage to Rochester (from Jane Eyre) which ends with her death in the attic. Of all the girly, froofy, tell-me-about-your-feelings-Heathcliff type books that I was forced to read in high-school, this was by far the worst. It left me feeling what the Germans call Mädchenausgabenlangweiligeheit ('Girl-issues-boringness', though babelfish translates it as 'expenditure for girl'. Either way, it works).


Thwarting Hazards is Cloudless

Perceivable sweetness!
Exertions, counting parapet
abstained, owes.
Encamped calculating;
charming until noticing,
shawls speedy coals,
breaking condemned heads.

Flashed thought,
Misled!
Entreated experience,
Alter!

Retreated bright type
around music, garden leap.
Dealing hysteric courtesy,
wisely coiling, fitter upstairs;
himself passionate,
summon respect bitterest:
Contest!
Destroy!
Bolder,
thwarting hazards is cloudless.



This way to Jane Erye.