JOE'S CORNER
With Joe O'Donoghue

Joe O'Donoghue

Copyright Joe O'Donoghue 2006

June 6, 2006

Prologue

This poem was inspired by Cormac McCarthy’s “Blood Meridian”, a historical novel about 1848 Southwest marauders. One of them, “Judge Holden” of Texas, much like his followers, is devoid of conscience and at ease with the horrors of brutality.

Louise Renne with her 4 apocalyptic followers Julie Moll, Judy Berkowitz, Mary Ann Miller and Debra Walker -- mirror that insensitivity of Holden and his troop. Their victims? The elderly and the frail of Laguna Honda.

It is not without significance that the birthing of their evil, June 6 ‘06 reflects 666, the numerology associated with Satan.

Louise's Lugars

Silhouettes emerging, formed from darkness
Specter images, they grey sight and light;
In them, the mother’s milk of life soured,
Dour sexless creatures -
Paratoxic, they collage together
Devoid of laughter, devoid of song -
Carnivores, primates in human flesh
Power acquisitive bodies, Nietzschean souls,
Shadows shimmering, on life, on light –
Birth they evil.

Joe O'Donoghue
June 6, 2006
Copyright © 2006

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