Sunday, June 19, 2016

Robert Verdon, #179, Feast Your Eyes on the Bestiary


the House of Lords is not a Death Camp
said Alcheringa,
moody and plucking the steel 3rd string
of his country and western backpacker guitar,
warbling about fire-walking and the censorship of money,
surreptitiously skimming The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte,
and feeding on a rusted chicken;
Parp the famous Poet lived by the sea,
mouldy and farming marijuana,
rodent memories of a mimsy throat-cutting Scaramouche
from the Commedia dell’arte of Nantucket1
heating his brow: his detractors and tractors 
hey dickhead … 
aped his polluted air of neoliberal persiflage,
whipped up a baked cocker spaniel from Seoul Foods,
sneezed while papering over the Seine,
obscenely joisting, jousting, and jesting with C. Wee Wee Tinklepleasures,
silver-combed in honey and sugar of lead;
while the obese Greek God Dennis
(‛Anyone for Dennis?’)
lusted after anything orange,
wore black at night,
reviled the Tolpuddle Martyrs while cycling in Lycra,
hopped egoistically across hot stones in Fiji,
made off with public moolah as Minister for Private Enterprise,
and, after smearing marmalade on his mouth-organ,

piled into his ancient Mini and set sail for the horizon.

1‛Nantucket, a tiny, isolated island off Cape Cod, Massachusetts, is a summer destination with dune-backed beaches. It’s marked by its unpainted cedar-shingled buildings, many surrounded by manicured privets. The wharves and cobblestoned streets of the Town of Nantucket are lined with restaurants, high-end boutiques and steepled churches. The town’s Whaling Museum recounts the island’s role as a 19th-century whaling hub.’ (Google).

5 comments:

  1. Yep what Efi said. Clever and entertaining. Especially love this line: rodent memories of a mimsy throat-cutting Scaramouche

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  2. Something wrong with my brain today! But glad you both like it. :)

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  3. I like it too. It's insane in a good way, and carried me along, enjoying the ride.

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  4. It's zany but I'm also with Robert Lowell and his Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket.

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