XXXI Days of Poetry - Day the Sixth
PENTAPTYCH OF SILLINESS
I - Ode to Dr. Nick Riviera
I know my leg weighs
more than my arm
but does my arm weigh
more than my head?
This is what I want to
know before I end up dead.
II - Grammarian's Pique
That, is something up with which
I simply will not put,
If you persist, then from your ass
You must remove my foot.
III - Ken Burns (after he's been drinking)
Every man's a Library, an Island,
A Country and a Curse,
A promise of a Miracle,
A vision of a Hearse.
IV - Antiope's Revenge
Today I unholstered my gun
And pointed it up at the Sun
But it's not nice to shoot the source
Of heat and light (a solar force);
And so I put the gun away
To save it for another day
Perhaps a planet will act stupider
And I will get to shoot down.....
V - (with any luck, my Mother quit reading two verses ago)
Her demons make her wild
Her demons make her wet
I'm terrified to be alone with her and yet
I want to make her demons
Come into the light
& rip their throats out as
I make her come all through the night
XXXI Days of Poetry (2016)
Read more Poetry, including previous year's "31 Days"
[Paintings: Top - "Jupiter and Antiope" by Nicolas Poussin (1594-1655)
Below Poem - "Jupiter & Antiope" by Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641)]
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