Friday, March 20, 2020

Legend of the Bird with the Crystal Plumage


"There's beer in Chicago,
and them boys is thirsty in Mar-a-lago,
we got a run to make....."

Big Enos and Little Enos done throwed down the gauntlet on them old boys.  So bust-off the flaming chicken, burn on them radials and lay it in fourth gear.

Done switched off the ambient loop of ocean waves crashing.


But then we have, a sort of shadow-hand poetry,
which uses murder scenes to tell love stories.

"Oh drat!
Look at that:
naked fat man
got a severed hand!"

 


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