DOMESTIC VIOLENCE - spoken word by David Curtis

[Hereticbooks]

Domestic Violence isn't about anger OR rage. It's about power and control.

[DavidRandallCurtis]

heretic: I agree it is often about power and control - just like rape - but don't believe what it is or isn't can be summed up in one sentence--let alone a poem.

[cuddlebuttons]

to see it and live it is to know it's weight and meaning

"so hard to go the way of a peaceful warrior it's a world of rage"

if people would accept men crying and being "weak and vulnerable" i think they would release alot of the anger in the true way they feel :(

[visionghost]

David your provocative style is so honest yet simultaneously so piercing that one is almost perturbed to look away yet somehow drawn back in to whatever you may convey. From my own personal perspective it's as if I am in conflict with myself to imagine the visions of your words. I believe your one to make people look at what they all try to deny. I really admire that!

[ILovesMcr]

Amazing use of emotive language I would say. It really makes the poem that much more powerful.

[EARL56700]

ZOMG!! your poems are very good.

[AndrewLaurenson]

Excellent videos. This is one of them. Very interesting.

-- Andrew

[flameoflifebookhouse]

One word : Piercing

Very powerful indeed !

5 stars

[1Aware1]

" He lets her know with his fists how much she has to hurt him" i love this line, in fact i wish it were a line i came up with instead of herd, i can see a thousand ways to make a poem soley to harbor that line.

[DieselBodine]

Now you listen here, you wife beater! These autobiographical confessions in the guise of spoken word forays will not get you off the hook this time! You've been recorded on your neighbor's old videocamera! You know which neighbor, too. That's right... the woman you've been cheating with for 5 years. The one who was trying to blackmail you for 50 Grand in small bills, but you counter-blackmailed her over her bestiality addiction. Will it be Canada or Mexico for you? Decide, my friend! 8-)

[leftysergeant]

Rage smashing through the marriage vows...interesting concept. Rage smashes through all the constructs of civilzed behaviors, perhaps of human behaviors. A point well-made.

[livingpassion]

I think the first stanza was the most powerful. Well done.

[DavidRandallCurtis]

livingpassion: Most people like the second stanza best - but I also like the first half of this more than the end. I see you favorited Peter's latest poem - which I think is great. You've got great taste M'lady!

Thanks for taking the time to comment.

[Becca0716]

I suppose a black pearl necklace

[DavidRandallCurtis]

Becca: hmmm... just what kind of "pearl necklace" are we talking about here? :P

[Becca0716]

ok that made me feel creepy...even though i know it happens dark subject i guess but had an impact

[DavidRandallCurtis]

Becca! Well, it's meant to be creepy so I guess it is doing its job. You know about my crisis line days.  This is an everyday thing for millions of women around the world every single day... ....but hey, I'd really like to hear what you think of the poem after this - HINDSIGHT - please have a 3 page double spaced report on it atop my desk by 8am tomorrow. Actually, I'd like YOU atop my desk tomorrow wearing a pearl necklace and nothing else. :p

Brat.

(5 bux sez ya won't do it!)

[AhimsaShadow]

I liked how this one had some psychology intertwined. I took "how much he has hurt him" in a non-literal way, as poetry is for doing with, and it was an interesting outcome. Muy bueno!

:) peacee

[DavidRandallCurtis]

Ahimsa: Thanks for commenting. You are one smart cookie. But I still need to borrow that 36 dollars from the ketchup job... :p

[rozeboosje]

Wow

[AntaresInScorpius]

This poem applies to many homes across the world unfortunately. Nicely presented. playlisted.

[RayneDrops4Ever]

I am not sure I like this one- the imagery is wonderful but I guess it depends where you are going with it.  There is no justification for a man to hit a woman nor a woman to hit a man unless in self defense. It just instigates the madness!

[DavidRandallCurtis]

Rayne: Tough thing to write about... to me it is as obvious as gravity that it's wrong to hit a spouse or child... in a way I hate to spell that out too much because I feel like if I do I'm insulting the reader's intelligence... but... I did have a job for years where I worked with countless battered women and I know how naive a lot of people are on this subject. Thanks for commenting.

[nordicsky]

I like this it's great imagery,

"and with a cry

reminiscent

of a thousand wounded cats

screeching in unison"

This poem sets my teeth on edge like the screech of chalk down a blackboard.

[Largo64]

5 of 5*

[dmio2]

maybe men shouldn't "get it touch" with thier feelings.

[rowsdowersavesus]

classic. 5 faved and all that jazz. Hell, I'll send it around.

[PlayboyHerbie]

Nice one... If that's possible.

Liked the way you wear your wedding ring collection like brass knuckles. And I accidentally rolled over Bubbles the Wonder Cat's tail this morning so I can relate to the cat screeching. Sounded like the last ménage à trois and all that catawallering... But I digress.

[ezseeker]

Right on target! Great job.

Easy

[Sarahon06]

Nice one. You sound a little like Bukowski. Not the poetry, your voice.

[DavidRandallCurtis]

Sarahon: Oh yeaaaaaaaaa.... maybe a little..... yeah.... to all my friends!

In the early 90's I met Buk & Linda at the AFI and he was drunk and he sounded like Mickey Rourke in "Barfly"... I guess I should say Mickey sounded just like Buk at the AFI... thanks for the comment!

[InsatiableBlonde]

hey, speaking of, I have 3 channels david...

one just for men..hehehehehe

[TheRavenOfPoe]

No one hearing this poem could deny the power of the spoken word. This piece stirs up such emotion and provokes thoughts too often suppressed because it is easier to do that then think over the sorrows of the world. And you do it all in just a minute, David. This was powerful and impressive!

[DavidRandallCurtis]

Raven- thanks - but what have you done for me lately? Oooooh you are going to kill me for that.... :p  ---- thanks for working on that top secret thingy........ but yer still and Aussie Brat... (Thanks very much for the kind words).

[janeczka]

Very powerful piece. Another good one of yours!! :P

[DavidRandallCurtis]

janeczka: yer being too nice. You are up to something :p

Thanks...

Brat.

[janeczka]

Shit. You can read me like a book!!

[happy2oblige]

Great stuff. Words flail me.

[colamoonpig]

David that was a very powerful poem.

You are a very at real life subjects.

Thank you for sharing this with me.

5 Stars *****

Hans :o)

[InmediasMe]

very good.

[DavidRandallCurtis]

Thanks Lo. Now please record a new video or I will have a cow.

[daleshankins]

Creepy. But still a five.

[DavidRandallCurtis]

dale: yeah, it is creepy... probably one of the harder poems for me to do... because I don't want to come off smug or show any sign of something that might look like a smile.... thanks for the comment!

[paisleypower30]

Unfortunately not all scream out.

Good poem !

[beautiful0loser]

you put a 'real' and 'gritty' edge to something a lot of men and women deny ever happens to them.

sad...but excellent poem....powerful!!

thanks for sending it my way.

[xxxSunbeamxxx]

I don't know why - but I felt like this one should be longer. Was there more originally? I guess maybe it is cos there is always more to stories like this than you get to see.

[DavidRandallCurtis]

Sunbeam: I have other poems on this subject that are longer... but sometimes short is good. (That's what I tell my lovers anyway :P )

[xxxSunbeamxxx]

lol on the what you tell your lovers. :)

Yes - sometimes short is good - more 'punchy' perhaps also.

I dont know why I got that feeling...!

[DavidRandallCurtis]

Sunbeam: I always tell women... okay, it may be short... but it will be the most intense TWO SECONDS of your life! :p

[xxxSunbeamxxx]

DRC: I cannot reply - I am tangenting off remember intense two second interludes of my life...LOL...You are such a BAD influence on me!!

[xxxSunbeamxxx]

'remembering' I meant....see? I cant even type...LOL...I have officially gone to pieces...sigh

[InsatiableBlonde]

no pun intended? hhehehe

[xxxSunbeamxxx]

Hi Morgan. You know - I come here and make a wholly innocent remark about DRC's poem thingy perhaps felt like it should be longer..and well, look what I get into!!...LOL...

[InsatiableBlonde]

Yah, now I see! how are ya? I am messing with this confounded new tripod...grrrrr... I really should sleep...eventually! Just speak your mind, love. I do, despitethe major problems it seems to cause...as long as it's truth, t's all good, Aye David? How's me 2 favourite poets? We need Bentleymon and EZ, and w'll be all set! Oh my! a COLLAB!! between the five of us! Smashing!!!!

[tashaluvsyou]

aahh Dave, such a deep way with true-ness of life. thank you for sharing you with us. hmmm gotta see this again.

[windcu]

overwhelming, but based on reality...even though I have never witness such malice, I am sure others aren't that fortunate.

[blueastcoast]

awe, wicked sad, but an awesome poem, definitely says a lot about domestic violence..

[InsatiableBlonde]

well, time to make him cry like a beast!

Go get em'

Tiger.

Morgan

[DavidRandallCurtis]

Insatiable: *gushes* - no one has ever made me feel like Peter Parker before... :P

[EllaFarworth]

*claps*

need I say more?

[DavidRandallCurtis]

Ella: Thanks Ella...

[reeceegirl]

Very insightful piece, mirroring the circumstances eluded to my own piece, only speaking from a different perspective.

Great write! Thank you for sending me this piece to check out!

~ReeCee~

[EdMuirton]

Excellent poem David! That's how it go's. Cheers!

[AppleStar7582]

No words for you, I will let my silence do my speaking for me.

[araneus1]

Intense, provocative, and insightful; everything the spoken word should be.

spider.

[DavidRandallCurtis]

Spider: thanx very much!

[liz1060]

A story that seems so simple, obvious, transparent ... good and evil, plain as day ... until it's your rage or your bruises, and your story.

[DavidRandallCurtis]

liz1060: Well said liz...

[tomken8dy]

Real men don't hit women.

Good poem.

[DavidRandallCurtis]

Tom: Thanks man... I won't give you a hard time this time... :p

[tomken8dy]

I appreciate it.

[InsatiableBlonde]

and real women hit back if they should be unfortunate enought to get hit

[tomken8dy]

HARD

[InsatiableBlonde]

yes hit them hard.

with rum bottles....

[AntaresInScorpius]

or in a few cases shoot back  ===:o

[InsatiableBlonde]

Well, once I got hit.

I punched him in the ace...he fell back smashing the bedroom window with his head.

And that was the end of that.

Fiesty Pirate Morgan ;]

[Loreleila]

Crazy, isn't it

How passion can get distorted so?

[katwoman11]

Short and powerful poem!

Though through the shame of it, sometimes the women try not to scream like a thousand wounded cats cos they don't want the neighbours to know.

And yeah sometimes besides punching holes in the drywall- proofisinthepudding - he also rips up her bras and underwear!

[proofisinthepudding]

And he thinks it is ok to treat her like that because thats the way his father acted 40 years ago!

[johnhart30]

powerfully read. The continuous cycle of what one is taught.

[smartbluecat]

Strong stuff! Great work!

[proofisinthepudding]

And he breaks her things and punches holes in her wall!

[DavidRandallCurtis]

proof - and then a lot of times she takes him back - I've seen it over and over... it can be a very hard cycle to break out of - people tell women to just leave him - it's usually not that easy for the woman...

[marycigarettes]

i'm not prolific like you dearheart .... and because of my good looks and charisma,there's always lots of love making to wade my way through..by the time it comes to being creative,i'm simply exhausted dear...at least applaud me for having my priorities in order.

[proofisinthepudding]

I wasn't being prolific I was being real.I'm glad your not a bully though!:)

[katwoman11]

It happened to me

[proofisinthepudding]

Never had my bras and underwear torn up!:(

[marycigarettes]

pure class..clear as crystals

[DavidRandallCurtis]

Mary: Just like you Mary... you have some explaining to do... like, where the Hell have you been and how come you have not posted! Grrrrr....... :P

[Loserido]

That is a powerful poem.

[elviradark6]

do i get anything for first comment!!??..lol..woooo..taboo subject cant touch that! ^_^

[PrivateMessages]

Elvira: Wow... yer the first person ever to say "first comment" on one of my videos. Is it taboo? Man, I worked a Helpline for years and have literally talked to hundreds and hundres of battered women... after a month of that job I really began to hate men...

[PrivateMessages]

Oh yeah... PrivateMessages is my secret channel that... is not so secret anymore... duh... I use it to see if my videos get sent out or not and to spy on YOU :p - oh - your prize for first comment is to fly me out there, take me to a broadway play, wine and dine me - and basically keep me at the standard of living to which I've become accustomed... :p

[elviradark6]

ok, now you're freaking me out..lol..privatemessages man! ^_^

[DavidRandallCurtis]

PrivateMessages was the orginal name of this channel - it was going to be me writing a script for Froggie43 to read - until the brat bailed on me - why are people always bailing on me? Because I call them brats? :P

[elviradark6]

cowards!!! lol