GRENDEL'S AUNT (an original poem) - Part 11

This metered ode is written by a faery poet named Brighid. She's a character in my novel, The Grim Girl's Gallowglass. In pre-Christian Irish mythology, Brigid (spelled differently) was a member of the Tuatha Dé Danann, a supernatural race. She was the goddess "whom poets adored." Brighid writes this poem, "Grendel's Aunt," over the course of the novel.

"Grendel's Aunt" follows a hero named Hymm who transacts a business deal with Dwenndis, aunt of the monster Grendel, from Beowulf.

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And below are the next four stanzas:

She collapsed in the arms of her rescuing knight
who still loved her, despite what she said.
Whereas Grendel stared down at his wound hanging open,
as out drained his veinous supply of protropin.
He'd need new injections, must contact that gnome,
so, as scripted, the monster slank home.

A drug-nudging, time-tripping faery named Brighid
was Grendel's supplier in Greenwich.
She fed him the hormone, ephedrine, and steroid
he ended up altered and erred in her lair, cloyed
by all of her fakery, snob, and conceit.
Still, he flipped through his book for her number.

Back in the bedroom of Cindy's apartment
the knight laid her soft on a chaise.
Her sleeves he re-sewed and her hair he re-bowed,
and he freshened her breath with an herbal “forgive” rinse.
She thanked Hymm and offered reward for deliverance
amounting to thirty pound three.

But Hymm, he refused to be paid for her saving.
True love was his main motivation.
“I know that you find me a bothersome pain,
and a man undesirable woos you in vain,
but I won't ever save you for financial gain,
so I'll just leave your cash on the dresser.”

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