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Six Sins for Sixpence by *batousaijin:iconbatousaijin:

Categories Literature > Poetry > Philosophical > Ballad




Sing a song of Libertine,
A pocket full of ash,
Four and twenty prophets
Looking to score some cash.
When the cash was earned, and
All was said and done,
They lit up their peyote pipes
And said, "Now, THAT was fun."
©2007-2008 *batousaijin
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Submitted: June 20, 2007
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I wrote this in like five minutes on a whim. Less than a minute later, ~sejongkim1979 asked me to write a poem about religion and its shortcomings for his story, "Devout Marionettes" [link] , and I said, "You'll never believe this." It's to the tune of "Sing a Song of Sixpence."
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~Aurora-Sakura:iconAurora-Sakura: Jun 20, 2007, 4:34:41 PM
ah great! maybe the first line is a bit too...i don't know... abstract maybe?
*batousaijin:iconbatousaijin: Jun 20, 2007, 5:01:10 PM
well, libertine is kind of the opposite of religion, in my opinion. ever hear of the marquis de sade? he was pretty libertine.

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~Aurora-Sakura:iconAurora-Sakura: Jun 20, 2007, 6:08:56 PM
i have never even heard of libertine
*batousaijin:iconbatousaijin: Jun 20, 2007, 7:45:34 PM
wikipedia has a pretty good explanation. [link] that's what i relied on when i made the choice to use that word.

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~Aurora-Sakura:iconAurora-Sakura: Jun 21, 2007, 10:03:21 AM
ahhh... its just going against the norms in society. got it. i guess that is sort of the opposite of religion. nihilism was included in that description though for modern definitions, but nihilism isn't exactly anti-religion, though i suppose religious people say it would...
*batousaijin:iconbatousaijin: Jun 21, 2007, 8:55:57 PM
libertine seems to me to be more about satisfying impulses. that's kinda what i was thinking anyway.

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~Aurora-Sakura:iconAurora-Sakura: Jun 21, 2007, 10:10:07 PM
that works too i suppose
~lalaland-faerie:iconlalaland-faerie: Jun 22, 2007, 7:21:34 AM
"Sing a Song of Libertine"... yes?

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*batousaijin:iconbatousaijin: Jun 22, 2007, 8:31:27 AM
you mean for the title? maybe... i don't know. probably not.

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