Uneven Recipe
A rushing tide, a rushing tide
A sneering pride! A sneering pride!
A glance aside, a glance aside
A fleeing bride, a fleeeing bride!
A flaying broad! A flaying broad!
A braying sod! A braying sod!
A snoring prod! A snoring prod!
A piper pied! A piper pied!
Thus raved the prophet, eyes bright with pain
Which shot about the room, then back at me again -
A Russian doll! A Russian doll!
A deathly pall! A deathly pall!
A crumbling wall! A crumbling wall!
A tyrant's fall! A tyrant's fall!
A poisoned foil! A poisoned foil!
And Olive Oyle! And Olive Oyl!
A Tesla coil! A Tesla coil!
A rolling boil! A rolling boil!
Thus raved the prophet, throat raw with joy
Which, though I pleaded, still proceeded loudly to deploy -
A rusting cage! A rusting cage!
A macrophage! A macrophage!
A burning rage! A burning rage!
And fresh-picked sage! And fresh-picked sage!
A narrow ledge! A narrow ledge!
A thorny hedge! A thorny hedge!
A daughter's pledge! A daughter's pledge!
A wicked mage! A wicked mage!
Thus raved the prophet, skin black with soot
Which, I thought, up with this I shall not put.
I'm fricaseed! I'm fricaseed!
I can't proceed! I can't proceed!
Who did this deed!? Who did this deed!?
He shan't succeed! He shan't succeed
Oh woeful crime! Oh woeful crime!
A suff'ring mime! A suff'ring mime!
("Prescient man", I mused, and drew my knife)
And thus came the end of Mime, Prophet and Life.
Contributors: | Roland, Dave G., Berni Phillips, Larry Brennan, Kevin Andrew Murphy, Ruth, loaf, Anon., D, VM, Elusis, Darius, Lloyd, Edgar, Trish Wilson, Chuck Taggart. |
Poem finished: | 19th June 2003. |