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Poem: Sithe Sathanas

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SITHE SATHANAS

Written by Diane N. Tran


Nothing left of the whore; nothing, oh!
Pierce her belly, see the crimson flow.
Time at my whim, ticking, ticking;
Digging through her belly, picking, picking:
Yellow, pink, grey, brown, black, red!
My nails, in and out, place them on a spread:
Intestine, uterus, kidney, bowels, liver, spleen!
Wet my nails, ha, 'tis all musingly routine;
Gash her throat; alas, no more breath;
Wet my tongue across, to taste her soul bracing Death—
Happy sneer!  Slit her nose, off between the eye;
Peel the face, here the skin stretch where she lie.
Let the hellish colour ooze, like melted butter,
For my next snip be something subtler:
Rip one breast in a claw, kiss it once.
Sweet and thrilling in my tortured conscience
Between my daggered teeth, I bit off the other:
Such a deed would please my blood-brother.
Shred off the legged flesh, gnawing, crush the bone,
As pleasant to me, as well as others like her own.
"Sithe Sathanas!"  Titled by my Master, let it be kithe:
Am happy servant, am happy slave, am "Satan's scythe!"
While cleaning up under my bed — which is a Herculean task, I assure you, because I just have so much junk under there — I found a number of poems I wrote during my pre-college/university days and, to my surprise, most of them are not that bad! Half of them were class assignments, but not all: They varied from superficially whimsical to depressingly gloom-and-doom being, you know, the angsty teenager I once was and all. Flippantly, I talked about this discovery on my Facebook and people actually requested that I post these, so here they are and please, please be gentle:

Here's that "gentlewoman and scholar" of myself resurfacing: Back in middle school yet again, I was not only an amateur (or semi-professional) Sherlockian scholar, but amateur (or semi-professional) Ripperologist. Ripperology is the intricate study and research of the Jack the Ripper: At the age of about fifteen through sixteen, I had a few minor research essays published on the subject, including two poems — "Sithe Sathanas" (originally titled "Sithe Lucifri") and "Confrontation." The latter can be read at Casebook.org, which is still, to this day, the best and most encyclopedic site on Ripperology available on the internet. Yet this particular poem, however, was published in an official, if highly exclusive, Ripperologist magazine and it described the murder of the Ripper’s final "official" victim, Mary Jane Kelly, based on the "Ripper Diary" suspect, James Maybrick, who was quite gruesome in his account of the murder.

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nuriaabajo's avatar
A very interesting poem, specially for being based on something so worrying as the murders of " Jack the ripper "
Very beautiful and very well written, since always