haha...Funny story I read about Jewel (Singer)

Keph- I do not possess the book and thusly can produce no specific examples from it, but the next time I''m in a bookstore (undoubtedly the next couple of days) I''ll jot some down in my Palm.

In terms of less hideously rank poetry (assuming that my memory of her poetry is accurate), where to begin? How about Fredrico Garcia Lorca? Or Siegfried Sassoon?

Here''s a sample of Jewel''s lyrics, scraped off from under someone''s shoe by Google:

She''s an ugly girl, does it make you want to kill her?
She''s an ugly girl, do you want to kick in her face?
She''s an ugly girl, she doesn''t pose a threat.
She''s an ugly girl, does that make you feel safe?
Ugly girl, ugly girl, do you hate her
Cause she''s pieces of you?

Wow. That''s intense.

I wish I could save her from all their delusions
all the confusion
of a nation that starves for salvation
but clothing is the closest approximation
to God and He only knows that drugs
are all we know of love

Forgetful

he walks with a skin of stone
in effort to keep his blood
from dirtying the pavement

he closes his eyes
with deliberate determination
trying to remember

the veins behind his eyes
lead like blue road maps
to the ocean of everyone else