La verge by Joan Pope [poetry]

A performance of La Verge, a poem from my book Death is Coming. http://joanpope.com

My video is at DLive



The verge of obsession
Sucking
Excessive progression
A means to communicate
That which cannot be spoken

Translation requires sacred intoxication
With nothing to swallow
You'll have nothing to speak of

Taste the milk of knowledge and submerge
Into the deepest, darkest caverns of humanity
Defiance is exhilarating at the peak of perversion
Find the edge of life there
At the apex of my utterance
In a tender act of submission
Transforming humiliation
Into Art.


by Joan Pope

This poem was also set to music on my album, Death is Coming by The Whip Angels