Simon - Dave Seaman [CD 1]

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Salome, by Duffy?...?

I've got an English assessment this Wednesday and have to write about Salome. We had one lesson to annotate the poem as a class and got some pretty good ideas. If you've read the poem before you know that there are themes of revenge and sex. Here is a copy of the poem:

Salome

I'd done it before
(and doubtless I'll do it again,
sooner or later)
woke up with a head on the pillow beside me -whose? -
what did it matter?
Good- looking, of course, dark hair, rather matted;
the reddish beard several shades lighter;
with very deep lines around the eyes,
from pain, I'd guess, maybe laughter;
and a beautiful crimson mouth that obviously knew
how to flatter...
which I kissed...
Colder than pewter.
Strange. What was his name? Peter?

Simon? Andrew? John? J knew I'd feel better
for tea, dry toast, no butter,
so rang for the maid.
And, indeed, her innocent clatter
of cups and plates,
her clearing of clutter,
her regional patter,
were just what needed -
hungover and wrecked as J was from a night on the batter.

Never again!
I needed to clean up my act,
get fitter,
cut out the booze and the fags and the sex.
Yes. And as for the latter,
it was time to turf out the blighter,
the beater or biter,
who'd come like a lamb to the slaughter
to Salome's bed.

In tile mirror, I saw my eyes glitter.
I flung back the sticky red sheets,
and there, like I said -and ain't life a bitch -
was his head on a platter.


.....In particular, does anyone have any ideas about the meaning in the last stanza, i thought that maybe his 'head' was actually a double meaning and gave the image of his penis on a platter, showing that Duffy is demasculating him...........................please tell me if this is wrong and i just have a dirty mind!