The PigPen's Resplendent Kaffeeklatsch

[busker]

I don't know if it makes any sense to spotlight a poem after the poet stopped participating but this has always been one of my favorite poems on the site:

https://www.pigpenpoetry.com/thread-1171...s+iscariot

That's interesting. I didn't like it at all, with lines like

The kind sea rushed to embrace you,

and

And now you lie

full fathom five
with pearls for eyes.

which is a secondhand allusion at best.
I stopped liking it after shattered cheeks

and I didn't quite know who'd died in the end. Clearly, the matted hair indicates that it's a human, not a dog. Why Judas Iscariot? I found it unnecessarily mysterious, reaching at profundity.

But - sometimes you just like what you like

I don't know why I didn't like it on first reading. Maybe because I was seeing it on my mobile, a smaller screen, taking a quick look in between things.
Re-reading it at my desk patiently, in the afternoon, it's different. I see milo's point.