the rubaiyat of the billigits part sixteen: translated by dame daisy kloverleaf

i

there are no billigits in nantucket

nor are there any found in pawtucket

they live for gamely games and flyin high

if life was a flower they would pluck it

ii

the billigits loathe dirty limericks

and those who snigger at porcupine pricks

or look up bastard in the dictionary

or greet every richard with hey dick

iii

willie the donkey likes cleanly poems

he says they remind him of homey homes

ask me not how oems rhymely rhymes with omes

or the moving hoof will smack your doh-um

iv

there are no billigits in nantucket

nor are there any in pawtucket

yet if you put a straw in a highball

all the billigits are sure to suck it

6 thoughts on “the rubaiyat of the billigits part sixteen: translated by dame daisy kloverleaf”

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

    Dear L

    Sometimes it’s beneficial to step back from it all, and consider people’s various motivations for writing these days.

    Some people write because they want to grapple with some kind of truth, or art, or because they want to make themselves into a deeper person, or because they like creative challenges, or because the mainstream world is such a vapid desert lacking in any oasis and that can be a killing thing if you don’t fight back spiritually in your own way.

    Then there are other folks, no less intelligent in many ways, who write from different motives: exhibitionism, prurience, peeping Tomness, an obsession with their own bodily pleasure, demeaning locker room humor, being stuck in the mindset of your average, groupthink 14-year-old boy.

    Also, there’s the matter of HOW people write. While I generally cannot read him at all (sadly, I’m too much of a Puritan), I do acknowledge that the Marquis de Sade was a good writer in many ways, because his style was so original.

    When the phrases are collected off the local high school’s bathroom wall and then glued together and foisted off as some kind of poem, that’s when it starts getting a little too ridiculous, in my humble opinion.

    Then again, a fly in the ointment isn’t always such a bad thing in every instance. It gives the rest of us a chance to stand up for what we truly, deeply believe in, at least. God bless you, Leila. You deserve it (and God knows it).

    Sincerely,

    D

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

    …The rhymes in part sixteen are utterly hilarious fyi…Leonard Cohen would be (is) proud of this…

    Also Alexander Pope and his DUNCIAD…

    “Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; / And universal darkness buries all.”

    -Alexander Pope

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  4. Seems to me that billies are frisky

    has someone bad been feeding them whisky

    Not to worry all will be well

    because all the bad folks are bound for hell.

    P’raps. dd

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