They Vanish Soon Enough
Pigmies and penguins like to dance
Along the sharpest knife
Whenas the sawbones starts to prance
And misery is rife
Their perturbations are precise
Though just inside the law
And leading to all kinds of vice
That make the limbs quite sore
They promenade in full moonlight
From August to July
With herrings and a spoon-fight
With axe and assegai
Such festal celebration
Alarms the jaded wits
Into a cerebration
o'phrenia and schiz
For birds are faithful playmates
The claws, the beaks, the knees
Are to all feelings like gates
Swung open to disease
A vivid understanding
Defeats an open mind
Whilst sailing in the Baltic
One's brain remains behind
They whistle in the moonlight
They holler at the sun
To provoke a mighty bun-fight
And vanquish everyone
Except the seven seamen
Who surf the Severn Bore
In search of pentstemon
And other acres raw
For suffering is pancakes
Redemption, buttered toast
Derision but the sacred host
The saviour who forsakes
The seraphim that stutters
Does so in broken Latin
And all the trash he utters
To me is just pure satin
Contributors: | Apsley, Surlaw, P, Shipp. |
Poem finished: | 25th November 2000. |