The poet's tale; 22 Dec 2019

                         THE POET’S TALE

1^st stanza

From novel Geoffrey’s tablet, a mother-flicker :

From Simon’s anatomy, a mother-shudder;

From the poetic pro’s static gunfire

Poetry hath gone rather haywire…

2^nd

The Stanleytoun Tales, from hither Geoffrey,

Do ride ‘pon the tides, to faraway lands;

Will surely remonstrate the prudish bands,

Branding the man as a mere donkey.

3^rd

A goodly servant, dutifully performing,

Promptly the residues yonder shunting :

But, the encroacher doth swell ever more,

Rendering the trapp’d duct further sore.

4^th

As at this spot Nature hath some oversight,

Will surely sprout up here some hidden blight;

The camel want’st to take up the whole place :

For the poor conduit remain’st little space…

5^th

Ah, what could be said on the matter ?...

Some constriction : some needless stricture…

Though crafting gems of tastiest nature,

The poet bow’d to failing watery chatter.

6^th

Ah ! Be need’d a tube with a harden’d wall

Through which would pass the vital cord,

Among others, still answering Nature’s call,

Resisting all squeezing from the overlord…

7^th

While yon crucial rising cord hath its fortification,

While yon useless internal adjunct itself survives,

Into strain hither luckless duct dives :

Alas, a poor poet be driven to perdition…

8^th

Yonder, for months be squeez’d yon similar channel,

Yet, promptly springs it back in the narrow panel :

Rapidly returns it to its original size in due course :

Yonder, to logic evolution sure doth have recourse…

9^th

The perpetuation of the species be a must,

Even if ashes to ashes, dust to dust ;

Hither, of trouble poor Man’s life be rife :

Ah, what a destiny... What a life…

10^th

What happen’d to evolution ? How was this overlook’d ?

Why must a crucial conduit be thus illogically hook’d ?

Must we be destin’d to such pointless battery ?...

Must our life be lac’d with such mindless misery ?...

11^th

How many centuries more be need’d for evolution

To save Man from such a needless condition ?...

Down Shaftesbury Gardens, always must remain,

For Pete’s sake, always must remain free the drain !!...

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Soman Ragavan

22 December, 2019

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