See what a little self-pity can deliver? Again, just completed, forgive the subtle and not-so-subtle puns. Like the scorpion said, I can't help it, it's in my nature. Comments and interpretations welcome.
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BALLAD OF A FROGMAN
I may sing rays,
discreet the sound
whisper o’er the bayou by me
hop a track and Punch-a-train
with gin mill odious odes
barbershop quartet offensive
warped vorpal sword
of vocal chords
pulled to pluck mal marrow’s arrows
at tame and tender targets
all saints dey earn der hey lows
and high falutin salutin
writhing in squid ink
on a papyrus palimpsest
hier’s sins scrubbed with aujourd’s deed
small price peddled for a pedestal
spelding is correct, gloria
fish who loved to be loaved
content to bubble unaired prayers
split the diffidence
‘tween sunbaked blessings
and fogrolled curses,
tinfoiled again.
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2 comments:
are you high?
No, but one can only imagine how hard this would be to decipher if I had added that into the mix.
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