Lyric № 20331
Child of my Buttocks
Come, harken to my tale of woe
That happened many years ago.
It may be crude; it may be bold,
And by the end you may be old,
But this, my son, I guarantee:
'Twill fill your heart with joyful glee!
One Sunday in my proud estate,
The butler served an swine-filled plate.
To this I fell with frenzied lust,
Ignoring the tremendous gust
Of wind inside my intestine
(No doubt the fault of swinely brine).
Though mighty 'twas, I felt no pain,
For on the plate still lay pigs twain!
'Twould be a waste, to say the least,
To let mere gas disturb my feast.
So, bib embrowned, I ate some more,
And ate until 'twas half past four;
Till all the pigs were finally gone,
And I could put no breeches on.
No breeches?! Yes, and shirtless too!
And both my feet were nude of shoe!
Upon my head there was no hat!!
What, Sir, do you think of that?
I myself cared not a whit;
Indeede, I scarcely thought of it.
But then I suddenly recalled
An memory of Pain foretold...
While in Church that holy morn,
I'd donned an pair of Devill's horns.
How was I supposed to know
That this would upset Jesu so?
He glar-ed at me, from the Cross,
Sternly, 's if He was my boss,
And said to me, "Thou naughty knave!
Dost thou think that thou art brave?
Since you mock me while I'm nude,
The same thing I shall do to you -
Beware, I say: if you undress,
You'll find yourself in great distress
And I will help you not one bit!
So sayeth I, as it is writ."
Dismiss-ed I this childish threat;
Mine greedy lips were growing wet
For t' splendid banquet I'd soon sup!
(I hastily retrieved the cup
In which unwanted spittle drips
And held it 'neath those plumpen'd lips.)
Four butlers each grasped gilded shaft
As I laid down toward the aft
Of my gold Litter, decked in silk,
And other finements of that ilk.
They hoisted me thus out of Church
While whipped them I with sturdy birch.
"Higher, rogues!" I scolded them.
For on the ground dragged my fine hem!
"And make sure that the Swines are cooked
Or, 'pon my honour, you'll be brooked!"*
They scuttled home beneath my weight,
Fearful of that dreadful fate...
* To be forcibly submerged in a brook.
And so I sate, in my Great Hall,
While wearing not an stitch at all,
Dreading what was soon to come -
But dreading more my wretched Bum.
So far I had its pow'r ignored,
Not knowing what inside was stored,
When thund'rous rumble I heard - but
'Twas not outside: 'twas from my gut!
This was a most heinous sign.
I cursed and doubled-cursed those swine!
I knew, though, that 'twas prophecy
That made my plight necessity;
Indeede, the cosmic moral law
That giveth clap to every whore,
And bringeth ruin to every King
Who faileth praise of God to sing,
Was pressing now upon my bowel
To boil and brew a Child most foul!
Thus, sated, fated, bare of cloth,
I waited for Lord Jesu's wrath.
In silence, countless seconds passed;
To me it seemed a gruelling Fast
And I was wracked with hunger pains,
Though surely fat still coursed my veins.
But worse still was the bloating stress
Of toiling loins under duress
And straining bowels, sure to burst
If I could not relieve them first.
That, of course, did not result,
For soon I felt a great tumult
Prepare to leave my Devil's Heart:
An vast, unholy, searing Farte!
Brave buttocks tried to hold it in!
But only Jesu conquers sin!
So, just like her in Paradise,
Who, also nude, and prone to vice,
Did gorge herself on wicked fruit
And shew her shameful birthday suit,
I suffered under Godly curse
Of agony in childbirth.
It ripped from me with raging heat
And overpow'ring stench of meat.
In all of Heaven and of Hell
There surely was no worse a smell!
I feebly tried to reach the door
But I was dizzied by the roar,
Which even Zeus would be hard pressed
To match with thunder, I'd contest.
Choking on sulphuric gas,
I fell down flat, and felt amass
Another cloud about to slip
Between my cheeks. In fear I gripp'd
My priceless Persian rug, adorned
With scenes from heathen myth, well scorned
By good and righteous Christian men,
And howled through clench-ed teeth again,
As more and more rank fumes flowed out
From my besoiled, spoiled spout...
The torment lasted forty days,
Leaving me a spent and crazed
Husk of a man. My ring was raw
From holy wind; mine gut, I saw,
Had shrunken from its mighty girth,
And growled in mis'ry of its dearth.
The birthing, though, was not yet done,
For, just like any nascent son,
By afterbirth It was pursued:
It seemed that I would follow through!
I prayed for help! though well I knew
That He was why the Browne Winds blew.
Perhaps it worked; perhaps 'twas luck.
In truth, I do not give a fucke.
But all it took was one last heave,
And finally I was relieved
From all the agues plaguing me,
As wetly, warmly they slipp'd free.
With that, I wot the curse was gone,
E'en though I had no breeches on!
With glee I sprang up and rejoiced!
And, crusted though I was, and moist,
I scampered 'cross the stain-ed floor
To ope the silver'd Butlers' door.
Without a care I flung it wide,
Inhaling fresh air from outside.
Out did leap the sinful cloud!
Out burst I with ballad loud!
"Jesu, I have beaten thee!
Your curse no longer tortures me!
In Church I'll wear my Devill's horns,
For Jesu's legendary scorn
Is pitiful, and flawed by Love.
The greatest anguish from Above
Is naught a match for tasty swine!
And God goes not at all with wine!"
Yet, as my saucy singing burst
On peasant passers-by, who durst
To venture by the ghastly stench
That still boil'd from my door, an wench
Shrilled high, "Look there! An walking farte!"
I turned and saw, with equal parts
Disgust and welling pride, the Child,
Its brownly features meek and mild!
Trotting on its gaseous stumps,
It lurched for me, raising goosebumps
Upon my sagging, sunless skin -
I screamed and dove headlong back in.
And here I've lurked, in my estate,
For thirteen years, hiding from fate.
My butlers gone, I've had no food;
On the floor I still sit nude,
Praying every day to die,
And dying not! nor knowing why.
The Child by night still haunts the grounds
With spectral Beak and ghostly Hounds,
Taunting me with my disgrace;
Beluring me to its embrace.
And mayhap, with my tale now told,
I should be valiant and bold
And step outside to meet my doom...
What's this? I cannot leave the room?!
NOOOOOO!!!!
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In truth, I do not give a fucke." or "So, just like her in Paradise,
Who, also nude, and prone to vice,
Did gorge herself on wicked fruit
And shew her shameful birthday suit" to name two personal favourites - but really the memorable lines are too many to quote here. But perhaps most compelling is the tremendous moral message: so much modern verse gives us no more than pallid whining about love. Dark Angel really gets to grips with the big issues. So to speak. And the ending is worthy of Poe, though let down a trifle by the final 'Nooooo' which adds an incongruously Simpsonesque note. Dark Angel's work is becoming increasingly mature; this reviewer looks forward to his next, even riper, offering.
I have already achieved the greatest rank-based triumph possible; to wit, to have three of my poemes be the three lowest-ranked poemes, and not just because they are terrible poemes, but because they have offended some people so much that those people went on anonymous "revenge" voting sprees, even though the poemes would only offend those idiots in the First Class. Therefore I care no longer how my poemes are ranked.
I am a man of honour, Sir, and if foreigners choose to mock my work with their ill-consider'd voting, it says naught of me. Settle is and has always been an Terrible Rogue. What would the neighbours say if they say you consorting with the likes of him? Good day to you, Sir.
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[_] About romantic love
[_] Arbitrary indentation
[_] Arbitrary line breaks
[X] Autobiographical but in the third person
[X] Braggadocious
[_] Clerical errors
[X] Cliched rhymes (love/above etc.)
[_] Cliched adolescent metaphors of darkness for despair etc.
[_] Devoid of alliteration or any such linguistic embellishments
[_] Devoid of rhyme
[_] Devoid of simile, reification or any such literary devices
[_] Devoid of wond'rous or fantastical imagery
[_] Drug references
[_] Elves, unicorns, etc.
[X] Exclamation points used to mark 'the funny bits'
[X] Insipidly whimsical or zany
[_] Leaving rant
[_] Lower case only
[_] 'Lyrics'
[X] Melodramatic
[X] Naively religious or superstitious
[_] Obsessed with femininity
[X] Overabundance of ellipses
[X] Overuse of Latinate words and/or convoluted sentence structures
[X] Pointedly unanswered questions
[_] Protagonist has a smug name
[X] Rage against the machine
[_] References to the author's 'social life'
[_] Repetition of a single word or phrase to the point of nausea
[X] Sanctimoniously moral
[_] Sappy
[_] Suicide-related
[X] Wish fulfilment
The story thus - At a Clubb of Younkers, after a Frost a couple of Wild-Ducks were bought. A thaw coming the day after, these having before been frozen hard, fell in, appear'd all black, and stunk most harmoniously - yet, that nothing good might be wasted, the Purchasers dress't'em, and eat the first pretty nimbly, not staying to tast it; but by that time, Colon being a little pacifi'd, advancing to the second, it drove 'em all off, and was given a decent burial at last in the Boghouse.
Come all you brisk Lads that have ever been seen,
At the place that you wot of hight-Clerken-well-Green!
First of all Merry Mac, come and taste our good cheer,
For our Hearts will all vibrate thy Lyricks to hear.
One and all run and Saddle your Cane, or your Beast,
And hasten full speed to the bountiful Feast!
In pow'rful Gambado's, or sinical Boot;
In a thrid-bare old Cloak, or a new Sur le tont!
Or flaming with Fringe, or meek Kid on your Hand,
With blustering Cravat, or reverent Band!
Both peaceable Hazle, and Kill-devil Steel,
Both Tory-Bamboo, and Fanatick-Brazeel!
Remember Batts Axiom, your Curtlass prepare!
Whet Stomachs, and Knives! Here's a Bill of the Fare;
Here's Duck upon Duck, for no more you must look;
If you'll have any more you must go to the Cook.
I tell you the Truth, and I tell you no lye!
They shine and 'twere Butter, or Stars in the Sky:
Zich glorry-vatt Ducks but zildom are zean,
Whore shou'd they be bore but about Taunton-Dean.
If they stink Mrs. Muse your nice Nose you may hold!
Disparage 'em not for they're bought, and they're sold;
Consider as cheap of the Poulter they had 'em,
As e're of the Higler-(the Servant!)
Here Dick, Black-Bess for thy absence should frown,
Look over thy Shoulder, and 'tweak off their Down:
But prythee deal gently, for 'twould be no Wonder,
They're so soft, and so young, if they sall all-asunder.
'Tis true I confess, if my Nostrils can tell,
They send out a kind of a Civity smell:
Yet more then a Bustard the Poulter might prize one
Like them, for their flavour like pasty Venizon.
Some will say they've a whiff like a Worm-eaten Bitch,
Or a Tartar Ragoo, ready dresst in a Ditch:
Or a cleanly blue-Pig-but ne're keck honest fellow!
For they're wholesome enow, tho' a little too mellow.
They're black, but where Indians do paint the De'el White,
That colour be sure's a most heavenly sight:
They dropt from the Moon out of Breath, and the Thumps
Which they took on the Ground have discolour'd their Rumps.
Cozen John! 't had been better if y'had not been so sickle,
But in our Garden-Cellar had laid 'em in pickle:
Tho' the Cook says they're sweet, I'll venture engage her,
That the Ducks should ha' stunk with the T--'s for a Wager.
Pothecary's Bills have full often half broke us,
With chargeable Vomits of Carduus and Crocus:
When these Ducks from the Bum-gut to Keckhorn would draw,
And like a Turn'd-Pudding-bag empty the Maw;
O Spirits of Arm-pits, and Essence of Toes!
O Hogo of Ulcers, and Hospital Nose!
O Devils Dung fragant, and tarrifi'd feather,
With Snuff, and with Carrion, Ana, jumbled together!
O Jelly of Toads! India's hasty-Pudding!
O Playsters of Issues champt down o'the sudden!
With fat blubby Pease, that are grimy all o're,
Thick butter'd with delicate matter and Gore!
Well! If these you survive, I'll believe 'tis no Fable,
That Indians gut Adders, and bring 'em to Table:
But after, if your Pest'lent Breath sally on us,
Wee'll get to the Windward, or Mercy upon us!
Hoyst 'em up with a Rope at the Fire! 'tis no matter,
Tho' they drop in the dripping, and crawl in the Platter;
So do's the sweet Phaenix on Frankincense-Faggot,
Sit roasting her self till she turn to a Maggot.
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