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Scores of Countrymen Stick it to Their Rivals (Free verse) by MacFrantic
What mind is this,
what tumbling, fumbling prophet?
Am ghost.
Am spitted roast-
feeding sick and dying darlings
nestled in the dewy greens.
Sentinel begs the bluey-handed Dixie.
Comes over, watches with a tick tick tick.
Blind mother begets a deafened son
and a two-father trance goes wayside.
What mind is whist,
trumping hearts and fickle asses?
Some thump revelry to our passions play.
Goodly be goodly,
no matter what our bed precludes.
For I've been
where I've seen lewd nights
make crude rangers on the morning's road.
Part two goes quick-draw:
egg-shell whites paint the chorus
'till it reeks of navy,
where haste awry
bests the vested communions of slowness.
I'm all right.
Ribbons baste my bread.
Chickens cluck.
Crows crow Gershwin
when they are dead.
So how do bum poets
go working years before they're born,
drawing art from artistry,
finessing flavor from sheets of tripe?
Pedal on my Suffolk queen,
mesmerizing the freebased masses.
Soul salutes you
legging out the final pounds
of a back flat tire.
Hummed swill builds varnish in thy throat.
So you puke wordy sap
with a year's diversion
captured in the top bills all gobbing game.
Advertisement's witch or enough,
we grab that starlight and...
Run mother fever run
like life's a gun,
breaking hearts along the way
to breaking yours.
Whence calm you came among us.
This should toughen how it ever was:
weaken it never will.
This promise I promise-
that cold steeps cold water to the top.
While cussing like it's evil
mens' portents shimmy in a shadow
graced by happenstance.
And the Devil she were,
I'd villain up Daisy to look like you.
'Cause she sure ain't gonna be happy
when she finds out you're her with me.
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