Streetcar Named Desire

by BOB GALLO   Jan 6, 2022


I am the prince of your madness dreams
The one who would never lie,
sprung
in the gold spell of your heir
that you brush with your whims.
He who would never commits
an unforgiving act
of deliberate cruelty.

I am the one who knows the saint in you
inside and out,
a virgin in the wrap of a tramp,

he who sees an angel
lost in exigences,
found in your glances,

clear wells
in between
the murky marsh of
your smashed eyelashes,
blooms of wisdom
bursting out of mucks,

a pearl
trapped in the nacre of an excruciating hurt,
in the shell of your unelaborated whor-edom,
the wisdom, the tear, the pearls of pain in your eyes.

I am he who sees your beauty
broadened beyond the barb weirs of wrinkles

I am the one who hears your music,
read the poetry of your eyes,
who
is intoned to the silence of your voice,
the lambs in your raves,

I see the crescent of your laughter
from the cracks of these walls.

I am he who
watches how you wash your heir
and sanctify your gold,
that you find
within the callousness of daily toxins,

he who sees your polished mirror,
who knows a real princess
even always poor,
is beyond the rich, in her heart,
for her truth
is always unforeseen and forbidden,

for a real gold
is always concealed and hidden.

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  • 2 years ago

    by BOB GALLO

    A comment in the other site I use it her as a good introduction::

    Dr. Zhue - "I love how you took the play A Streetcar Named Desire and then wrote a poem in the perspective of Shep Huntleigh (or what Blanche DuBoise imagines him to be). Your first line is so compelling and immediately confirms to familiar readers that this poem is, in fact, based on the play. I also like how you did a little play on words "wash your heir" in stanza 9. One critical thing I'd like to point out is that the large variation in line and stanza sizes is distracting, though it may have been intentional. "