Acrimony for Unknown Pontiffs
Doctrine of the spiral stair
Veto of the final mayor
Desperation, not despair
Rituals of the broken queen
Privateers in Plasticene
Founders of the last latrine
Homework of the anxious youth
Pitfalls in the road to truth
Stumbling over neat vermouth
Rictus of the broken jar
Shibboleth and samovar
Kings with names like Balthazar
Cattle under cactii dance
Jewel and genie take their chance
On fillagree and stolen glance
Pilgrim to the cloistered lungs
Barrel banger, banging bungs
Speaking in outlandish tongues
Doctrine of the dead balloon
Wizened violet, pale maroon
Folly of the rich buffoon
Rituals of the reborn tern
Estimated tax return
Scavenge bones of post-tax earn
Silence of departed snow
Surfer wreckage under tow
Applecart and afterglow
Hunger for the ancient rite
Is this the darkness or the light?
Ignorance, or appetite?
Puncture of the bedbug bite
As old as time this ancient rite
Drunken bug and shrunken night
Staring at the doctor's spine
A lecture peals of hoisted stein
Which is real, and which the sign?
Contributors: | Roland, P, Beefy, Kansas Sam, loaf, (trad.), keith c. |
Poem finished: | 20th February 2003. |