The Wheel
Your ideas about the poem are ingenious and interesting. I hadn’t thought about it in connection with the insects. I saw it as a more obvious reference to the Wheel of Fortune, or Wheel of Fate, whatever. One day you’re the Master of the Universe (the Light one at least), next day you’re walking carrion.
It’s a rather florid poem, possibly an early Draco? [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]. The beans do love trashing overblown poetry. I figured the inspiration was bad Romantic poetry–particularly when Kai starts playing with the skull. A Romantic standby.
I love [i]Twilight[/i]. One of my all time favorite episodes. Totally off the wall; normal people don’t come up with selenium deficiency plots; And as always there’s moments that catch you off guard:
You’re laughing at Kai’s antics, then he suddenly says
[i]]Where no thing is, shall nothing be.
Only then will I be free[/i]
…and ends up throwing the dead flowers over the cliff and you stop laughing as you realize what he really wants.
Again, when he throws the second HDS body over the cliffs and breaks into that happy, gleeful laugh (that you know you’ll never see again) the moment suddenly becomes poignant.
I guess I’ve gone off topic a bit here, sorry. Suffering from Lexx withdrawal. I thought the poem was a stroke of genius, and I love the look on everyone’s faces when Kai starts spouting it.
elmey