np lay the bent ...

[Glenn Scheper]

> What do I have to make of the following sentence?
> "Lay the bent to the bonnie broom" http://www.lordlandless.de/songs/cruel.php
> Otto

This website often uses the metaphors of the metamorphosis cunningly,
chosing the right ones to quote and writing coherent original lyrics.
Its author, Thesilée, is clearly my fellow, an Abject, Hero of Eros:

    Abjection.

http://www.lordlandless.de/songs/hiding.php
O little one, what have I done?
My crimes I dare not speak.
I wished to guard you anywhere,
But I have proved too weak.
I can't forget your frightened eyes,
I heard you call my name.
I wished to be a hero,
But now I die of shame.

    Death.

http://www.lordlandless.de/songs/lily.php
O gone is the fairest flower, the lily of the vale:
Don't ye weep, but come ye closer and listen to my tale

    Transformation.

The love of an Elb, as they told me before,
but once in a lifetime will open the door.

    The mandatory metaphor: Birds.

http://www.lordlandless.de/songs/vogel.php

    Streams.

http://www.lordlandless.de/songs/quelle.php
Es fliest eine Quelle, ihr Wasser so kalt,  und wer davon trinket ist zweimal so alt.

http://www.lordlandless.de/songs/coldwater.php
There runs a clear streamlet with water so cold and I who did drink have grown twice as old.

    Flying boats; allusions to 12 apostles.

http://www.lordlandless.de/songs/solitude.php

    Reflexivity!

http://www.lordlandless.de/songs/dragonhunt.php
Adimas watched them disappear, till no one was to see,
and then he smiled, and then he said: »My heart holds none but me.«

...nor did they find Adimas, who pierced his own heart through:


    Paradox/mimicry of the father-of-self.

http://www.lordlandless.de/songs/unicorn.php
I look just like a unicorn,
Save that I bear an extra horn.

My extra horn is what they fear.
I suffer low esteem -
But I am, what I am, not what I seem.


    As for laying the bent to the broom...

In 'bent' I hear inclination, proclivity, desire,
and therefore, genital, even as horn was mentioned.

I wonder, do females type their pubes as a broom? Still
I seek the referent for bible's 'besom of destruction'.

But now I remember that Revelation's Abaddon/Apollyon
or Destruction/Destroyer map on a lesbian girlfriend,
so I think I'll consider that besom metaphor solved.

Surfing for "who'd want a hair-and-bones-harp anyway?"
led me to this site that I recognize, for I harvested
many hundreds of web pages cataloging myth types here,
a wonderful myth archetypes site:
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0780.html

Until the blonde killed the other, I thought it was
going to be the biblical Martha & Mary type of story:
Martha plains, for Mary "hath desired this good part."


    Oh, Dave Monroe's links tell the tale...

http://www.snaigow.com/cgi-bin/discus/discus.cgi?pg=prev&topic=26&page=340

> "Lay the bairn tae the bonnie broom" 
> Thanks. I know bairn is a baby, or babe.
> But I don't understand what it means,
> why would you lay the baby to the "bonnie broom"?

The author's interest in Elfin Konig, which I interpret as a story of
an infant's fellatio of his father ("kings are crowned in the cradle"
is a remark that will find another such poem/poet.) is the other part
of a paradox of being one's own father, and autofellator, that causes
the abjection, to be numbered with the (really-extreme) transgressors.

Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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