LEASHPET poem in selection of poems on various topics and themes, including America, Japan, Malawi and Guantanamo.

This LEASHPET poem is part of the Genghis Lotus Poetry Collection, a selection of poems free to read online.

The collection includes school poems, city poems, nature poems, war poems, cancer poems, death poems, and, additionally, other poems, assorted poems on various topics and themes, this being one of those other poems.

Webmaster for this site is poet Hugh Cook, born in Britain, educated in New Zealand, and the author of, amongst other works, the fantasy series Chronicles of an Age of Darkness.

LEASHPET

You recoil from my aldehydes,
From my gigavolt promiscuity.
Am I so monstrous?
Douce leashpet!
Your bluish lips so beautiful.
Do not deny me, dryad.
We are fated to be here together
Posed in this diorama,
Locked here together in the gothic,
You by your participation in the census,
Me by my profession.
My instructions are, Justine,
That your role is to suffer, mine to inflict.
Your choice, leashpet.
Will you acknowledge it as love?
Or must I be, to you, forever,
Just another soldier, following orders?

Copyright © 2004 Hugh Cook
May be photocopied for classroom use

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