just another lurid pome by that reprobate kinkminos
your name’s absurd too terribly asinine dactyls
crashing in on each other like dyspeptic waves
engaged in slapsticky bitchfighting
over matters of earth-shattering import
like what constitutes a fair price for
unlovingly crafted prada knockoffs
in sunny dooby’s increasingly dubious
and depressingly overcrowded backstreets
i forgive you your insistence
on taking a mulligan and claiming as justification
the rough and tumble of life in cities where
hardship allowances are under threat
and forgive myself my lusting after
someone as wholesomely vacuous as you
for lust (he said) is brief and briefer still
my dextrous exposition of it all
if i changed my name to afzal jah
or mehmet abdul quddus
would you still be willing to introduce
me to your superficially tractive friends?
minos – march 2008
4 Comments
March 26, 2008 at 6:46 pm
I certainly hope this was written with humor as I laughed heartely. Within though, I read the all too serious undertones. What a magnificent poem, inteligent and crafty, pulling no punches yet taking itself not too seriously. A masterpiece, if I may say.
April 3, 2008 at 4:05 pm
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April 4, 2008 at 3:55 pm
why, thank you kindly. i’m overwhelmed… no one has ever used the word masterpiece to describe anything i’ve written. (tongue in cheekk or otherwise.)
April 5, 2008 at 8:58 am
Minos – this is such an unusual, or shall I say original piece. Masterpieces are labels so no need to re-use that – but this was surely good and I am glad that its merit has been noted above – also through the hits that this received..