So then, can you all imagine
Wings made of wax, melting
Then father watches-on, helpless
As Icarus plummets, just like that
Can you understand why
This is titled an ‘important failure’
What its allegorical lesson might be?
Erm, yeah guv
Use ‘No More Nails’ next time
Works a treat
Funny, Mr Wit
Seriously, anyone want to guess?
But like Guv, that other fella
Just watched him get splattered
Didn’t like, you know, do something
Like Superman or Spider-Man or Batman
They’d have like, you know, done a dive
And like caught-up to da kid
You know, like a true comic hero
Eh, Guv you here his misogynistic BS
What about Superwoman or Sappho
And like Maya Angelou’s diamonds
Between her thighs?
Eh, what You on about now
Always so impotently militant
I was on about the fella’s father, a man
Nothing to do with feminism!
Look, none of that, both of you
You’re all missing the point here
I think, taking it too literal
But like Guv, couldn’t that clever guy
Just like grab some bedsheets
And like create a parachute, like
Ain’t that you know
Negellaggeblness’ness or parental abuse?
Well I mean this was Greek mythology
Archaic time’s, not as advanced as we are
Parachute’s weren’t invented, yet
Oh yeah Guv? Smells all dodgy to me
I mean, here they are flying about
To the Sun, while we can barely moonwalk
With like, just feathers and wax
But like, we ain’t got that
We’re all boarding huge tin cans
Fitted with giant exploding engines
Seems to me they had it sussed better
Seriously?! We’re doing Greek mythology
We already went over what myth represented
In antiquity, you know this is all made-up fantasy
Yeah, but that’s my point Guv!
While they’re making up their beds
Coming up with wings
They could’ve come up with parachutes
Like it’s all fantasy, so why not?
Well for starters I don’t think they had beds
Well not like us, exactly or duvets and bedsheets
Ah I get it now, Guv!
Lesson is, first come up with decent beds
Before you try jumping of a cliff, right?
Well
Well, that could certainly be
An interpretation, maybe
At a stretch, quite poetic really
I’ll settle for that
In a way, well done class!
Next lesson we’ll be covering Homer
You’ve all heard of Troy and Achilles
He’s more like a typical superhero
You’ll all have fun!
Is that about Brad Pit in a short skirt Guv?
What’s the Simpsons got to do with it?
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© L. B. Mek
November 2022
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- Published: January 9th, 2023 03:30
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Comments1
I first read this much earlier today & just knew I would be compelled to return to it ..
not just because I hoped that in the interim, I would have prepared an appropriate full appraisal .. but because I just knew I could not possibly take everything in, in a single sitting ..
Upon my eventual return .. minus anything prepared earlier .. I proved my self write ..
Nevertheless, I am compelled to point out that the whole thing proved itself to be one helluva joy ride ..
it also demonstrated just how versatile and accomplished you are as a poet brother Mek .. Neville
a joyride, what choice wording
was a joyride to write as well
as-ever, just grateful we crossed paths Hyung
'a single
genuine clap, can deafen life's emptiness
every time'
thank you!
(oh btw am currently eyelash-deep in your book
what a collection! so diverse yet intoxicatingly seamless
so happy for you my friend, you must be very proud)
You are most welcome & deserving .. Oh' & very special regards to those eyelashes of yours brother Mek
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