For Janis Joplin - Eat Your Heart Out Baby Poem by Keith Shorrocks Johnson

You go back there and find out who it is spreading stories I'm a dyke.
and tell them that Janis says she's gotten it on
with a couple of thousand cats in her life
and a few hundred chicks and see
what they can do with that.

‘Our love', he said, ‘shall be none other
But chaste and true as is between
A goodly sister and a brother
From lust our bodies to keep clean.

And wheresoever my body be
Both day and night, at every tide,
My simple heart in chastity
Shall evermore, lady with you abide'.

Oh, come on, come on, come on, come on
Didn't I make you feel like you were the only man? Yeah
An' didn't I give you nearly everything that a woman possibly can?
Honey, you know I did
And, and each time I tell myself that I, well I think I've had enough
But I'm gonna, gonna show you baby, that a woman can be tough
I want you to come on, come on, come on, come on and take it

Take another little piece of my heart now, baby
Oh, oh, break it
Break another little bit of my heart now, darling, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Oh, oh, have a
Have another little piece of my heart now, baby
Well you know you got it, if it makes you feel good

Persephone - between light and darkness -
Swallowed to the underworld by Hades
Or defiled by her serpent overlord Zeus -
Was left the doubting mother of Zagreus

The beautiful boy child of the gods.

When the Titans consumed the loathed child
Only the beating sputtering heart remained
But the imprint of those barbarous, wild
Ancient flesh-eating savages was retained

And the heart became the embryo of life -
A bloody remnant culturing mankind
Rescued and implanted in the divine:
Barbarity and purity come to term with strife.

From that birth and death, came good and evil
Its heartbreak left to reconcile the devil.

The Saracens went and left him lie
With mortal wounds piteous to see;
He called his page hastily
And said, "My time is come to die.

"In my heart is so deep a wound
That I must die none gainsay;
But before I lie within the ground,
On one thing of you I pray:

"Out of my body please cut my heart
And wrap it in this token of her hair;
And when thou dost from hence depart,
Unto my lady thou do it bear.

You're out on the streets looking good
And baby deep down in your heart I guess you know that it ain't right
Never, never, never, never, never, never hear me when I cry at night
Babe and I cry all the time
But each time I tell myself that I, well I can't stand the pain
But when you hold me in your arms, I'll sing it once again
I'll say come on, come on, come on, come on and take it

Take another little piece of my heart now, baby
Oh, oh, break it
Break another little bit of my heart now, darling, yeah
Oh, oh, have a
Have another little piece of my heart now, baby
Well you know you got it, child, if it makes you feel good
I need you to come on, come on, come on, come on and take it

"Promise me this without delay,
To bear my lady this present;
And tell her of my faithful chastity
And the love that death would not relent.

…

The Lord of Faguell, hunting there
Was in the forest with his men;
And met the page who bore the heart with care;
"Page, " he said, "what news do you carry then?

In fear he told the story from the start
Of how the knight was slain in combat,
And how he had sent his lady his heart
As a token that she could wonder at.

Then the lord returned to his castle
And asked his cook to dress the meat
As a spicy, dainty, well-served morsel
That she should be heartbroken by deceit.

Take another little piece of my heart now, baby
Oh, oh, break it
Break another little bit of my heart now, darling, yeah
Oh, oh, have a
Have another little piece of my heart now, baby
Well you know you got it, child, if it makes you feel good
I need you to come on, come on, come on, come on and take it.

Oh, come on, come on, come on, come on

Didn't I make you feel like you were the only man? Yeah
An' didn't I give you nearly everything that a woman possibly can?
Honey, you know I did
And, and each time I tell myself that I, well I think I've had enough
But I'm gonna, gonna show you baby, that a woman can be tough
I want you to come on, come on, come on, come on and take it.