Rock And Roll Suicide. [Terzanelle]

Rock And Roll Suicide.

Crocodile Tears streamed down her foundation disguise,
Masking all of the labels pasted to her brittle heart;
And hiding a past in her eyes that she painfully denied.

Cherry lips quivered as the battered knife tore her apart,
And her scarlet blood trickled onto the bathroom floor -
Masking all of the labels pasted to her brittle heart.

Her soul yelled: "Stop!", but her head yelled: "Cynical wh0re!"
But in the corner of the mirror there was a tiny red note -
And her scarlet blood trickled onto the bathroom floor.

The cotton candy pills and whiskey tickled at her throat,
As she looked to her reflection and believed her lies -
But in the corner of the mirror was a tiny red note.

Drowning in a broken lullaby was her rock and roll suicide,
And on top of her homecoming photo, roses were placed -
As she looked to her reflection and believed her lies.

A mother's screams echoed through her corpse as -
Crocodile tears streamed down her foundation disguise.
And hiding a past in her eyes that she painfully denied -
She looked down to a daughter that she no longer has.

© Jenna Elphick
November 22, 2006

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A Terzanelle is a 19 line poem consisting of five interlocking triplets plus a concluding quatrain in which the first and third lines of the triplet appear as refrains. The middle line of each triplet is a repetent reappearing as the last line of the succeeding triplet with the exception of the next-to-last stanza which appears in the quatrain.

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__ May be a tad confusing in the last few stanzas and all, but if you don't get it, just ask me. __