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Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Doggerel's Whodunit

Rose is sore. Read
round her Miranda bouts
with two dribbling lips spilt,
she can't keep mum.

Violet sings blue
pulp in gory detail,
worried others might slip
rat-a-tat out.

Sugar makes sweet
drops for daddy D.A.
He'll dab her soft pleas, trade
tissues for grime.

And so do you
wanna quit with the stale?
Meat-grind us to where dame
Whimsy got oft.

3 comments:

human being said...

hahaha!
this is fantastic!
and if all the critical comments were presented in this way, we had a better world...

i loved the way the addressee is revealed in the last stanza...

Anonymous said...

So as usual I had to read and re read your poem to soak it all up. Thought it was clever entertaining and slightly erotic. Then I looked up doggerel which led me to double dactyls and onto clerihew and back round again to here. Now I know... this poem is freaking genius!

Francis Scudellari said...

@human I could start a whole new school of literary criticism :).

@Hazel I think there's more freak than genius in me ;). I'm glad it stands up to multiple readings and was interesting enough to spark research. I had to look up clerihew myself.