10-31-2011, 08:16 AM
Thanks for your feedback, Mark and Abu
I like your idea about making "after we did it we left him there" a refrain to repeated at the end of the poem, Abu.
I don't really know what the poem is about, nor why I wrote it. It was a spur of the moment piece. I crafted and polished it, but with no real purpose in mind. My own belief is that vigilantism has nothing to do with justice, but rather expressing the ugliest side of yourself in a way you think you can justify. No-one who takes pleasure from calmly and carefully inflicting great pain is good or moral IMHO. Maybe that's what the poem is about.
I like your idea about making "after we did it we left him there" a refrain to repeated at the end of the poem, Abu.I don't really know what the poem is about, nor why I wrote it. It was a spur of the moment piece. I crafted and polished it, but with no real purpose in mind. My own belief is that vigilantism has nothing to do with justice, but rather expressing the ugliest side of yourself in a way you think you can justify. No-one who takes pleasure from calmly and carefully inflicting great pain is good or moral IMHO. Maybe that's what the poem is about.
"We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges." - Gene Wolfe