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Waiting for a Lecture

 

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                           [1997]   

 

 

 

Life is a Steaming Pile of Donkey Doo-Doos

 

Hey diddle diddle

The cat and the fiddle,

God’s up there,

The devil’s down there

And here am I.

Trapped.

In the middle.  

                      [1996]

 

 

 

The Snake

 

Hiss!  Hiss!  Hiss!

Chrissy shan’t miss

her pet snake.

 

It slithered and it wriggled

along,

long,

on,

that wicked fellow John.

 

It looked at her longingly,

Chrissy’s pet snake

Hiss hiss!  He he!

 

She hit it with a broom

in the living-room,

Chrissy’s pet snake.

 

‘For Pete’s sake!’

(for that was his name)

‘You’ve squashed his brain!’

 

I yelled at her,

though not deterred

a jot.

 

‘I should have shot

both you and the snake,’

she said to me.

Ha ha!  He he!  Hiss hiss!

Chrissy shan’t miss

her pet snake.

 

hiss!

     hiss!

          hiss!

               hiss!

                    hiss!  

                         hiss!

                              hiss!

                                   hiss!

                                        bah!

                                             humbug!

                                                      hiss!

                                                           hiss!

                                                                hiss!

                                                                     hiss!

                                                                             [1997]

 

 

 

Pearl Fishers

 

Fishermen off the island of Tamarind

Wear stone blocks

Around their necks and ankles

Which keep them underwater

Till their deaths.

 

Unless a pearl-minded friend

Bewitched by a spout of mercy

Notices the flute of bubbles

And offers a hand of relief

To prolong the Torture of Life.  

                                               [2007]                 

 

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