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Elysabeth asked in Arts & HumanitiesPoetry · 1 decade ago

What do you think of 'Merricat, Merricat, Living In The Castle' pome?

Ain't nothin funny about 6a.m.,

Cept coffee fightin the sugar,

Laughin at cream...all in dimness

Of clouds rollin by...

So, Merricat, Merricat,

Where to, today? Going to

Town for groceries, and a

Cupo Jo at that cafe, where

Laughter sits beside you?

Merricat, Merricat, travel on

Home, now...through the

Rusted gate, through dark

Woods, right on up to the castle.

Tell Uncle Julian hello for me...

Sit him in the garden...to fumble,

Mumble about the last dinner...

Merricat, Merricat, brush your

Hair. Fire's getting closer, made

In the town...of gossips, fools,

Just because they say you

Poisoned your family, sittin

Round the dinner table...silly

Merricat...putting it in the sugar.

Where's your home, now, Merricat?

Ashes to ashes, but villagers leave

Food on your front porch now...

Restitution, retribution...oh, Merricat!

They need to apologize for burning

Your castle...belladona, cyanide,

Mushrooms, mushrooms, mushrooms.

Merricat, Merricat!

Don't poison me!

Down in the boneyard,

Ten feet deep!

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* Note: this is based on Shirley Jackson's book...

'We Have Always Lived In The Castle'...

extraordinarily great book!!!

Psychological thriller deluxe!!!

Update:

debjani....uh, no. Merricat was nuts from the get-go...but, you have to read the book to find out why....

Good Morning!

Update 2:

Granny...ya gotta read this book!!! All the answers are there!

Good Morning!

Update 3:

Neon...want a pome about the Electric Code?

Heheheheheeeeeeeee....!!!!

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  • 1 decade ago
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    I think I'd like to chat with Uncle Julian.

  • 1 decade ago

    Never read the book but might do so now! Mind you, got to finish Terry Pratchett's Making Money, John Connolly's The God Of Lost Things and Aravind Ariga's The White Tiger first!

    Actually the mention of mushrooms put me in mind of Clint Eastwood in the film where he is poisoned by the house full of girls with mushrooms.. what was it called...?

    Nice lines.

  • 5 years ago

    Yes i live near three castles, Dover Castle, Deal Castle and Sandown Castle although Sandown Castle is just a bunch of ruins

  • 1 decade ago

    Damn! I just finished reading the National Electrical Code and now you want me to read some psychological thriller? Pass the poison! Got the gist of the book from you poem though. Are you going to sell this to Cliff Notes?

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  • 1 decade ago

    You surely like to mystify folk!

    Because of the poetry of T.S.Eliot I pictured Merricat (not unexpectedly) as a cat...so that added to my confusion.

    I wonder if the opening stanza is necessary...I see you mention the poison in the sugar later, but I didn't link this back at all - for me it sounds as if you were starting one poem and then quickly changed your mind!

  • 1 decade ago

    Is this english? Have you been to Newport Beach lately? I sense that you are a selfish country music loving lady with love self esteem. What is a pome?

  • 1 decade ago

    Good Evening!! Damn it feels like morning ...I'm sitting here having coffee & just like it was morning-- it's 745pm!! Talk about a switch !! Well there's another book I have to read ...Thanks the book sounds great! Have a good week

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    What to make of this offering i am not sure, so i will not puzzle, just read and reread the score. Cast theories to the the wind. Enjoy ! and await the next offering.

  • 1 decade ago

    To say it in short I would say: Merricat,ie we or any definite person dedicated to, has actually forgot its root,ie, native, and this happened, because merricat had a deep desire to grab that , which never suited her.......and in this course she did all that were actually fake and inconsequence she lost her originality, or native, or home.......and, by the time she realizes her mistake it was too late.

  • 1 decade ago

    I must read that book. Sounds very interesting.

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