DOMESTIC VIOLENCE - spoken word by David Curtis

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

Honest
unadulterated
rage
smashes through
the vows
of marriage.

He lets her know
with his fists
just how much
she has hurt him

and with a cry
reminiscent
of a thousand wounded cats
screeching in unison
she lets the neighborhood know
just how much
he is hurting her.

(David Randall Curtis)

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[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.

[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

[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-)