Poetic Injustice: Poems Detailing Love, Loss, and Looks

Mercury (An Audrey Munson Biopoem)

See you in New York City

Are you ever so pretty!

How could your "most perfect form"

Cause you to perform

This tragic act with mercury

That led to your tragic story

You shall be beloved and famous

Thanks to Herzog, living with bliss

Thanks to your body, an hourglass

Of curves and crevices

Mingling with those of higher class

To the tune of your nude, my dear lass

But when you think that happiness is yours

It's Dead Sea fruit shall turn to ashes in your mouth

All because of this trepid curse

Ruining your life, as it veers south

With all these men pining for your beauty

Never one to rethink their cruelty

You, who shall throw away thousands of dollars

as a caprice shall want for a penny

Those men, minds of lust and mouths of hollers,

Desired your body and paid many

To see you on display, it drove you crazy

You were just a delicate daisy

Before your pact with mercury

Now you don't have to worry

You, who shall mock at love

Shall seek love without finding

That thought would never shove

Restrained from love and kept binding

Could've shared a life with Hermann

If only insanity didn't win

Seven men shall love you

A prophecy that comes true

One even killed for your attention

A man you wouldn't ever mention

Seven times you shall be led by the man who loves you

To the steps of the altar, but never shall you wed

Last but not least, this becomes true

Instead, left in an asylum for dead

All after the fact about mercury

And how it wiped all your glory