Silk Ears
by quill via jane - Jungle Drum Newswire Monday, Feb 26 2018, 11:18pm
international /
poetry /
post
“the wind cries, mary ...”
sings jimi
yet mary is also contrary,
if u say right Mary says left
tho the seething mass of maggots
in the middle see neither direction,
they feast frenetically on the corpse of civilisation
they see a river which they name,
reinforcing the delusion that the river is
somehow mapped in time and space
tho we know we never step into
the same river twice
with silver bells and cockle shells ...,
thus mary’s garden grows
i’ve never had a girl called mary,
perhaps i am fortunate,
Felicity, Prudence and Virginia
are my true loves,
they each possess their own integrity
the silver bells tinkle in the wind,
the river remains in flux
and the seething mass of moronic maggots
feast on corpses and shit until they take wing
as developed blowflies
my grandmother once quoted an old folk saying
from the village she was born:
‘if you follow a blowfly it can only lead you to shit.’
and that defines the character of the seething masses --
would you waste ur time on a lost, impossible cause?
pig’s ears and silk purses are another story
yet mary was once a virgin pure
until the maggots despoiled her
with an impossible conception
wonder no more why mary is so contorted
and contrary today --
how does Your garden grow?
http://jungledrum.hopto.org/news/story-3207.html
<< back to poems
|