I would throw numbers at you
But it's safe to say
There are still places
Where you can buy the blood that flows
Beneath the feet of the people
You can't tell me that there aren't parallels
One hundred years later
Almost to the day
A crafty duo digs a knife in
Plugs it with a tap
And proceeds to siphon
And you, nursing ever so slowly
The remains of what was
The biggest diversion
A slight of hand washing
Engineered for severity
Despite its soft delivery
We know you
And thank you
For your diligence
And brilliance
Before you
We didn't even know
We needed antioxidants
And now with wonderful halos
You will undoubtedly deliver
The greatest bloodpunch ever
Is there anything you can't sell us?
(Perhaps a live screaming baby
But if you tell me it's healthy
I might just nurture it
Then you could turn around and say
We said healthy
For you
Not it
And the joke's on us)
And you can tell me it's raining
Because perhaps I need an umbrella
Or rather a wonderful rain halo
Is there anything I don't need?
Putting worth on
A shiny penny
Your first one
Behind glass
A copper halo
Stamped with a new insignia
Undermining an entire island currency
But staying bullish all the while
So we can find a new name for Caesar dressing
Like ChovieDrops or ParmaDrizzle
Seriously though
You suck
Like the very bones
Like down to the very bones
And we admire that
Because you make them glisten
When they hit the market
Mostly phosphorous
Polished and perfectly unbone
We put that above all else
Your sweetest spots
Perhaps the five or ten
Please make them rounder, cleaner
Then release the trickle
Then the flood
Then the drought
Then start up the engines
And ride us hard to hell
Like horses or hogs
We will support you
With OTB and pork bellies
Your partnership dissolving,
Throatlock released;
The blood of Tangiers
And of China
And of India
By way of the Cape of Good Hope
And William Wolfskill
First tattled in coffeehouses of London
And the hoarse voice of Theophrastus
Before the destruction of Pompeii
And the twenty-seven varieties of Han Yen-chih
And the sweetest lines of Ch'u Yuan
Carved into tribute after Tohotmas III brought riches back to the Karnak temple
And Gitri as tribute on twisted tongue
And the jambila of the Vajasaneyi samhita
And healing properties of the Charaka-Samhita
And the hadar of Moses
Virgil's Median
Dioscorides's Cedromela
In the open air and country gardens of Palladius's time
As a gift to the Norman lords after the Ligurians saved it from barbaric destruction
Sown in Oman
Cherished by the Crusaders
Manicured in the kitchen gardens of King of Savilla
Via the citronguli of Savona
Ju kan, Chen kan thanks to Kokwan
Stanzone per i cidri
Mulholland's reclaim and Eaton's pasture-grab --
A new partnership,
With same values and similar vision;
Best of luck
We wish you nothing but the best
The best of everything
Higher value and laser vision
Lynda and Stewart Resnick
No comments:
Post a Comment