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Lethe

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September 8, 2017
Lethe by Nullibicity
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Persephone, you’d
be proud of me:

I had the pomegranate
boy, and I swallowed
him down with red teeth,
the perfect cannibal of air
and everything which
made his organs strike twelve
and bloom into the most
bloody serenade.

(Persephone, don’t be mad
at me: I might just have
become Hades)

So I had the biggest problem with the part in parentheses, because I don't know whether it should read "I might have just replaced Hades" or "I might just have become Hades," but I also had a "too" at the end... but my twin thinks it sounds more final without. Since this was a piece I wrote in two seconds, I wanted it to sound as put together as possible for words that come from my head. Thoughts? The title was a bit last second, too (I wasn't planning on writing today).

It was so easy to write, however, because the talented :iconirinajoanne: posted this lovely picture: fav.me/d8p51pi. If you guys remember, one of her pictures also inspired my poem Gardening For Dummies. Her way with photography and concepts is amazing, so if you like her work, I'd definitely recommend watching her for more! (:

(Lethe is one of the five rivers in the underworld, and it's the river of oblivion and forgetfulness. The dead drink from it to forget their earthly existence. Sometimes, I think I drink from Lethe and craft myself more wolf than girl, a despicable huntress in lunar-cycle fever.)
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regretfulflower's avatar
Could you do more like this with the titles as the rest of the rivers of the underworld?