Poetry

Tuesday 20 December 2016

Jesuit Justice

All about the shirts shout
And passers- by exclaim
In voices loud as a newborn’s howl
Pass around their name
The hapless crew are wandering through
Careless is their ditty song
Of high fluting pleasure castles
Where they rest all day long
And they say that wickedness never rests
While these Babylonians were at the game
Their facetious smiles and wrinkled brows
Never turned to see their selves in the mirror
Or else turn back from their ruinous road
No they were stubborn and lazy as a toad
They came back here not so long ago
Full of misery and sad song
For their loves had flown to go
And their children had passed on
Now the loud of shirt are of tattered rags
Tatterdemalion
And their dollar bills fill just paper bags
Much like Pygmalion
Still their pride and vice
Are twice as nice as when they once were seen
Walking the castle palisades
As a pleasure palace’s King and Queen

Magistrates of the soul go by
Penny thieves, hope and vultures cry
Misanthropes tie ropes, about a dignified neck
As revolutionaries pell-mell their executioners peck
Little holes in the foals, Like a goalies check
And lace wizened purls round girlie curls

To invest in a gull ringed dove neck

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