La Bohème.

Your tiny hand is frozen
Let me warm it up for you
I'll kiss your fingers
And by good fortune
The moon is out tonight
So let me put your hand in my pants
And I'll get you as hot as holy fuck.

Dearest signorina
Let me tell you who I am
I'm Rodolfo, a poet,
Although no one would know it.
What do I do? I write poems,
Are you stupid or something?
Having TB is no excuse.

In my grinding poverty
I write a load of drivel
Which will get me nowhere
But I dream of being
A porn star one day
Or maybe I'm just dreaming,
Anyway I am well hung.

In the meantime
Let's forget our poverty
And the rain pissing down outside
And indulge in some
Random indiscrimate sex
Before the aria ends;
We have so little time
Before the fat lady sings
And rings our curtain down.

About This Poem

Review Request Intensity: I appreciate moderate constructive criticism

Editing Stage: Editing - polished draft

About the Author

Region, Country: London, Culture Capital of the World

Favorite Poets: Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, Rupert Brooke, Chaucer, Shakespeare to name but a few. And VERY IMPORTANTLY: Erich Fried, a leftwing Austrian of Jewish ancestry who fled the Nazis and became a British citizen in 1949., And, other writers (non-poets mainly): Raymond Chandler, Irvine Welsh, Anthony Burgess, Graham Greene, Charles Bukowski, John le Carré, Anthony Horowitz, Mick Herron, Margaret Attwood, Edna O'Brian, Maeve Binchy., Writers who I find vastly over-rated: TS Eliot, Virgina Woolf, Sylvia Plath, Phil Larkin, E.A. Poe, A. Ginsburg, Longfellow, Gerald Manley Hopkins (actually I LOATHE Hopkins more than damson-dappled words can say).

Comments

Geezer

5 years 8 months ago

The truth...

will out. No man [or woman] is a fking island, We all dance to the drums of a stormy thunder,
no matter our fullness of life or poverty. ~ Geezer.
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Edna Sweetlove

5 years 8 months ago

I fear that...

...you may have missed the joke here!
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Geezer

5 years 8 months ago

You fear rightly...

I didn't understand that it was referring to an opera! I see now, that you have a great interest and understanding of the genera
along with our friend Jerry. Bon appetite!
~ Geezer.
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Edna Sweetlove

5 years 8 months ago

Thank you for commenting but...

..it's not meant to be a "serious" poem. It's a piss-take of one of the most famous Italian operatic arias of all time.
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Edna Sweetlove

5 years 8 months ago

In case you don't know the original!

A great performance, with inaccurate surtitles and an ignorant audience who cheer before the end, but fabulously sung:- ignore the 6+ seconds of dreary ads beforehand!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkHGUaB1Bs8
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