Orson Wells as CitizenCain
2008-12-03 04:04:32 UTC
Those English bookshops all have stairs that wind,
And so one night we climbed a winding stair
In search of poetry -- only to find
A bald and wrinkled crone declaiming there.
It danced and pranced and flounced across the stage,
It ranted and it raved of Poet's Day,
It shrieked of killer dwarfs; and in its rage,
It drenched the first five rows in spittle-spray.
You pointed out the window at the dock,
To where a mongrel lay upon some waste
In ratty splendour, licking its own cock,
Oblivious to all but its own taste.
No poetry in that room, just a bore,
But you, dear, found a perfect metaphor.
The gunkmouthed dwarf crawled from under the bed and up the stairs...And so one night we climbed a winding stair
In search of poetry -- only to find
A bald and wrinkled crone declaiming there.
It danced and pranced and flounced across the stage,
It ranted and it raved of Poet's Day,
It shrieked of killer dwarfs; and in its rage,
It drenched the first five rows in spittle-spray.
You pointed out the window at the dock,
To where a mongrel lay upon some waste
In ratty splendour, licking its own cock,
Oblivious to all but its own taste.
No poetry in that room, just a bore,
But you, dear, found a perfect metaphor.
and saw his reflection in the windowpane.
The unwashed pizza boy crawled from his bed and into the bathroom...and saw
his reflection in the toilet bowl.
(how could he tell which was which?)