Burnz

A little background on Albert Howard Fish: He was a known cannibal and sexual deviant from the 1880's until his execution in 1930's. He was juiced twice before he was finally executed by the electric chair. The mental institues deemed him sane and unreformable.



Albert Howard Fish



Here, insert these pins
into my groin,
slide them under my nails
like a common prisoner of war.

Pack cotton balls
soaked with alcohol
into my rectum
and burn me from the inside out.

If only pain wasn’t so painful
we could all experience
the euphoric feelings
drug addicts get from a fix.

Have a bite of this tender,
moist, veal cutlet,
skillfully flayed from
the rump of an eleven year old.

Never will I be changed,
reformed or institutionalized.
How should I feel remorse
for feeding on human cattle?

Make me confess all
the evil I have done
I won’t deny anything.
death is a welcome embrace.

As the electricity races
through me on the lightening chair,
I see the Devil grinning
from his perch in the bowels of Hell.

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Cinnarry

yay!yay! my creepy friend
Cinn

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Cinn-

Thank you for the compliments. Have you read about Albert Fish before? He was definitely a disturbed person. They did the best thing they could ever do for him when they pulled the switch on him twice. It was almost too swift of a way out considering his crimes. Thanks for stopping by.

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Psycho6058

Interesting poem about a very gory tale. Thanks, burnz, nice job.

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Cinnarry

Yes I have Burnzey, I have a rather large collection of books about nothing but serial killers and such.

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psycho- Thanks for stopping in. Yes it was a gory tale.

cinn- I have read some fifteen books on serial killers. Just trying to figure out what makes them tick is a mind scrambler

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Stewart

The simile in the opening stanza is inappropriate since it makes a historical reference that wouldn't be possible since Fish died decades before its relevance.

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Connor-

This is very true, I'll smite the vietnam reference.

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Stewart

Those latter two lines of the first stanze now read much better.

My only problem with it now is that I get no sense of rhythm from most of it which makes some stresses sound clumsy when spoken aloud.

i.e. "...with alcohol
into my rectum
and burn..."

The reason I bring up the rhythm is because enjambement, in my experience, works best with a noticeable pattern.

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Conner

I'll see what I can work out for better rhythm in that stanza, I thought it read fairly smooth there. Thanks

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