Doppelgangers Across Lands: 6 Poems by Emily Sun

By | 1 February 2020
Smooth Criminals Revisited

it was sea weed
they fed on that; not
on despair and men.

the sirens do not 
bare their breasts for your viewing

pleasure nor strike deals with 
ocean devils to plot your demise.

they do not sing for you.

tongue louse
replaced the little one’s tongue.
no sirens nor mermaids were sacrificed 
in the original.


the sea witch was their elder   
          Disneyfication led to her demise.

Poseidon possesses no GPS 
For they do what they will 

it was not their fault you were lashed to the mast. 

It’s convenient though isn’t it.
that fecund temptresses 
                                                  must 

kow tow 	
                               below the line 
						

                                                                                          or die.
 


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