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Lamb Cutlets

Can you still hear the screaming of the lambs Clarice?

Can you still hear them in the night?

Does the screaming still break your heart Clarice

When the hope of any mercy takes flight?

You knew I would visit you again

You knew I would come and call

Shall we have lamb cutlets to celebrate my love

We will keep them tender and slightly bloody

We mustn’t let the meat spoil

Served with a side dish of remembrance perhaps

The closest I can get to fondness

You know I do not acknowledge regret my dear

Such weakness is akin to ruining the sauce

Not something I would allow as a rule

But then you never took me for a fool

Bon Appétit my love

Let’s enjoy the food

 

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Inspiration can strike at the most odd times, and I have learnt not to ignore it, which is why I take a notebook with me everywhere I go.

 

On a drive round for a small diversion after supermarket shopping before I went home to pack it all away, I was aware of a voice in my head saying the opening lines to this poem as I went past a field on the Sussex Downs and I saw new born lambs that were staying close to their mothers.

 

The voice in my head was of Anthony Hopkins, who acted the part of his unforgettable Hannibal Lecter, in the film, “The Silence of The Lambs” and this was his characters voice saying it.

 

I could hear it, clear as anything, and some evil part of me grinned.

 

I pulled over into a lay-by, and pulled out my notebook and jotted those first four lines down.

The rest came later, when I sat down and let it flow over me.

 

I did not have any recent images of lambs. So I decided I just had to do this poem, and for that, lambs were needed!

 

It took me four attempts to get it, and on the fourth, I was lucky, although I did use my zoom lens so as not to spook them too much. Better still, one of them called for his mother…

 

So this a homage to the wonderful book “The Silence of The Lambs” by Thomas Harris, and the unforgettable film starring Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster, as Agent Starling.

 

To complete this piece, I decided to read out my poem, and if I can get the video to load, the link will be here in a minute...

 

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And if you would like to see more of my work, visit my website at:

 

www.shelleyturnerpoetpix.com

 

 

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