A young man astride a rocking horse.
His petticoats bristling. His eyes closed with pleasure
enjoying the euphony of his fork scraping his plate.
Facing him sits a filthy oldie shaking his dentures
like castanets. Whistling through his nostrils,
giggling with tears in his eyes.
The clattering of my teeth. Sometimes a coff, sometimes an achoo.
Heard a cry for help, but didn't pay attention.
Thought it was only myself as usual - the beldam of the bedlam.
A toothless hag moving eyeball-beads in an abacus.
They stare so, they stare so on her rope of pearls:
A row of Lilliputian skulls on a string.
The oldie chants the alphabet in an order he has fixed
himself. Once he strode down the aisle with a wedding
gown on an arm's length.
His bride-not-to-be (anymore) in the soil right outside.
The youngster tells about how he once lay in a bathtub
barely conscious in rusty-bloody-red water.
The bathtub tiptoed on lionpaws to the landing,
tipped over and flung him down the stairs on a rusty-bloody-red runner.
I'd like to tell them about a dragon with hiccups.
Hiccuping fire in headwind, burning itself. But I'd better not...
His petticoats bristling. His eyes closed with pleasure
enjoying the euphony of his fork scraping his plate.
Facing him sits a filthy oldie shaking his dentures
like castanets. Whistling through his nostrils,
giggling with tears in his eyes.
The clattering of my teeth. Sometimes a coff, sometimes an achoo.
Heard a cry for help, but didn't pay attention.
Thought it was only myself as usual - the beldam of the bedlam.
A toothless hag moving eyeball-beads in an abacus.
They stare so, they stare so on her rope of pearls:
A row of Lilliputian skulls on a string.
The oldie chants the alphabet in an order he has fixed
himself. Once he strode down the aisle with a wedding
gown on an arm's length.
His bride-not-to-be (anymore) in the soil right outside.
The youngster tells about how he once lay in a bathtub
barely conscious in rusty-bloody-red water.
The bathtub tiptoed on lionpaws to the landing,
tipped over and flung him down the stairs on a rusty-bloody-red runner.
I'd like to tell them about a dragon with hiccups.
Hiccuping fire in headwind, burning itself. But I'd better not...
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