the rubaiyat of the billigits: part fourteen (translated by dame daisy kloverleaf)

i

doublely double toil and trouble

a watched cauldron nae boils nor bubbles

high toned witches brew takes hours to reduce

into an ichor coaxed from hells rubble

ii

beauty is what beautilly beauty does

it sticks to the heart like peach to its fuzz

and once caught it is not easy to budge

love potions work but they outlast the buzz

iii

the billigits bottled the green vials

each they one corked with a smiley smile

there is gold in such said the witch laughing

but hearts wane crossing the dusty miles

iv

love came to be for heathcliff and kathy

who discovered late its penalty

forever together is a long time

to wildly roll in the greenly green

6 thoughts on “the rubaiyat of the billigits: part fourteen (translated by dame daisy kloverleaf)

    • Hi Diane

      Thank you–as the prospect of actually reaching a hundred quatrains became real, about here, Miss Dame Daisy took over–which promises that they become even more bizzaringly bizarre!
      Leila

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  1. My poetry – R or X rated, reader beware.

                                                       Lust poem

    With you I want a romance

    Since we were eighteen, I wanted into your pants

    We’ve got something, I don’t know what

    OMG what a butt!

    Your nurses’ exams I would proctor

    If only we could play doctor

    When you stare at my crotch

    I think that we should take it up a notch

    I like bacon, I like ham

    How about I check your clam

    Do you know what I meant

    When I said you make me pitch a tent?

    Roses are red, violets are blue

    If you go down on me

    I’ll go down on you

    Percy Dovetonsils

    Your were warned

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    • Hi Doug

      Ah yes the institution of dirty poetry still lives. Much to the vexation of Nantucket. Somebody should open a publishing house for it: The Bathroom Wall Press.

      Interestingly this coincides with the recent closure of another smutty instution, Elmo’s Adult Books, which had been just steeping in its filth at its “new location ” in the Charleston district of Brem, WA since 197_.

      Put under by a chain store pervo biz called “Lovers”

      The world is a childish and useless place.

      Leila

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      • Dale Williams W Barrigar's avatar Dale Williams W Barrigar says:

        …And there are far far far far too many fools afoot in it…with their brains in their pants – or no brains…..

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  2. Dale Williams W Barrigar's avatar Dale Williams W Barrigar says:

    L

    I love the new dark turn these verses take. The echoes of English Literature reverberate here, but they do not overwhelm the poetical magic, instead they undergird it and act as haunting echoes and reminders, potent sounds of meaning that enwrap and enhance (and produce) the mood (and moods)…

    I can feel Lady Macbeth staring through the mists, Macbeth watching the forest of doom move toward him, and K and H living and outliving in Oscar Wilde’s proverb:

    “When the gods wish to punish us, they give us what we most desire.”

    D

    PS,

    When I said there were too many fools in it, I meant the world in general and was riffing off this beautiful sentence: “The world is a childish and useless place.” That sentence overmatches Kurt Vonnegut in its profundity and in the way it doesn’t (and does) say what it really means. Levels and layers behind and within language = Deep Literature which leads one onward to new illuminating worlds within one’s own mind and spirit (not escapist, simplistic, distracting trash, which the world has had too much of for many centuries now…piles and piles of it…)

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