Hi I.F...
First off, I laud your, um, taking command, as it were, in writing such a poem.. and yeah, it is too bad about Mac and the whip situation.. I'm a Mac person too.. and really, you'd think they'd be the ones more up on these types of things.. it's a shameful omission, when it comes right down to it..
shame on you, Macintosh!!..
... (I think my understated use of the neutral smilie alone should set a fire under those Mac people, actually, and soon all we Mac users will yearn for the day before all those domineering whip equipped smilies began bossing us around.. I mean, for pleasure is one thing.. but being pushed around by a little blue smilie with a whip insisting that someone on Facebook wants to be my friend, well, that's just taking things a bit too far I think.. (oh, wait.. aside from the smilie with the whip, I don't think I'm imagining this part)..
Of course, I.F. (back to the poem), you do have me wondering now just what constitutes a ballad, actually.. I may have to look that up.. I like the alliteration, at any rate, no matter what a ballad is.. a ballad of bondage.. a bondage ballad.. a bondage ballad of bad women.. or.. well, I don't really approve of this one, but the allure of alliteration is dominatrixing me into it.. a bondage ballad of bad bitches..
.. anyway, (back to the poem).. I particularly like your last line.. our bondage sets us free.. what appeals to me is thinking in terms of limitations as not necessarily being limiting.. that's a bit more open ended than bondage per se.. but.. anyway, it's how my mind works.. (..gosh, I guess I don't have a one track mind after all).. (who knew?).. (just don't tell Georges)..
Actually, I've been thinking of posting a poem that might interest you, I.F... it's not about bondage exactly.. but.. anyway, I will point it out when/if that happens..
.. okay.. gotta get into my latex now.. it's just past midnight.. the evening's just beginning..
um, yours (?)
v i o l e t
(actually, I'm in the country right now.. not terribly exciting up here, I'm afraid.. but I wanted to make an appropriate exit nonetheless.. I mean, for literary purposes, if nothing else.. oh, I just did my nails and toenails in ice pink.. does that count for anything?... I mean, I know it's not latex or anything, but pinky can be kinky, can't it? (say that fast, at least ten times).. (.. see? I can order folks around too)..