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Question: Can anyone help me out on this one please!?!?!?
Here is a poem called Salome by Juan Calvino
I need to know what each verse means

She's kept him
all these years in her room:
just his head
stuck on a spike!.

She turns before him
while she dresses,
powders his dusky face,
and sits him, for the instruction
of her lovers, by the bed!.

Like breaking fingers
the bed creaks
and she rasps his name
in a voice rich
as tearing silkWww@QuestionHome@Com


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
Like a black widow spider, Salome consumes her men when she's done with them!. A real maneater!. She keeps him around (or what's left of him) as an object lesson to future suitors, next to her bed!. A bed that has had its share of punishment too!. She's one bad lady!. Pretty on the outside, but !. !. !.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I too need to know what each stanza means!. It is malleable and elastic!. To me, it could me a mirror, or a drug!.!.!.or just some dude's head on a stick!.Www@QuestionHome@Com