i
A vainglorious voice called from above
“Tell me boys, what’s so good about love?
It agonizes defames and neutralizes
The best it can do is tell little white lies-us”
ii
The billigits knew the voice and origin
‘t was of the Witch apprentice Eira Borgia
Who’d recently split with a sorry young man
Whom she turned into a Toad named Stan
iii
“our dearest eira your voice like a lyre
there is no one as gentle as you are-uh”
said the third billigit from the left
“and yet your sorrow tis a feather when put against your ire’s heft.”
iv
“Flatter me not words ungainly
For I have called upon you boys plainly.
Cull the wisdom from your orgone booth
And use it to find me a charming rube!”
(end part two)
Saragun Springs 
Somehow an uplift for depressives everywhere. Funnily enough, I knew a Borgia-like woman in Wales some 50 years ago & her first name, a common one in Wales, was Eira, meaning snow. A chilly – & salutary – reminder. Such fine stuff, as always, Leila.
Geraint
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Hi Geraint
Excellent pick up. When she came up in a previous story I wanted her name to be Snow in Welsh because she is a Welsh Witch Apprentice. Had to Google that, fully expecting to see a series of consonants heavy on double d’s and w’s.
Thank you for dropping by
Leila
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‘…your sorrow tis a feather put against your ire’s heft’ is a very fine line. And ‘ire’s heft’ is very fine term I intend to copy.
Had to google ‘rube,’ I think the Scottish equivalent would be ‘teuchter’ (rhymes with ‘conductor’). A wise choice of mate – hard workers.
Further interpretation is problematic at this point, due to the absence of Guernsey cows. But I expect that third billigit from the left to go far.
mick
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Hi Mick
Rube is a funny word in America–some places it means fool or bumpkin others have it as villain. Eira, I think, likes Bad Boys because she can do something about them.
Thanks again
Leila
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LA
I love this section of the poem. It’s filled with fabulous lines, rhymes, phrases, word choices.
The human truth it tells is the essence of SIMPLICITY and what people like Bukowski and Hemingway meant when they made a call (and a plea) for Simplicity in writing. Because the best simplicity goes beyond being simple, straight into being profound (like the Bible stories, greatest compilation and anthology of all time).
Tolstoy said, “The greatest tragedy is the tragedy of the bedroom.” And this was a man who had seen much of war in his day. And he was a man who died at the age of 82 while running away and trying to escape his wife – at last! The freedom was so close he could almost taste it – and then he died.
So the subject of love is eternal. Even for those who (like me) thought they had permanently walked away from it all, six years ago (and gradually before that).
When the subject of love stops existing, humans will have stopped existing, too.
It’s love, in all its forms, that makes us most human. When we give up romantic love for whatever reason, we almost instantly become more imaginative, and more spiritual. Because we are transferring what went outward, inward.
It’s why Bob Dylan’s album Blood on the Tracks is now and will always be his most popular album. Nowhere else does he get so close to the pain and humor of it all. This section of the poem exists in that same realm.
And the wonderful melding and blending in this poem of irony, humor, and sincerity is simply awesome, in the best senses of that word, because it’s completely unique.
DB
PS
This section also has a great cliffhanger, can’t wait to see what happens next!
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Hi DWB
Thank you. In my mind Romance cycles through horror, mystery, tragedy and always closes as a comedy. We keep on falling for it over and over because it is the hunt for an impissible thing, no matter how low the standard may be, that attracts us. As romantics human beings are as strangely dangerous as the North Korean nuclear program. It is a very bad idea in which the only possible good news is no news at all.
Thanks again for your generous thoughts.
Leila
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Impissable
I frequently use Orgone – I’ll either write Or gone to sleep. Tired and stupid from MIB and the Village, I choose sleep.
Now in DougIR an oldie with good art and a first from Maysam, an opinion option. Hope I’m not banned for self-promotion. https://hawley.ir/the-dumb
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Hi Leila
The intoxicants of love and vain glory can sometimes lie in the same bed.
I like “And use it to find me a charming rube!”
Christopher
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Hello Christopher
There are few words in English that, to my ear, perfectly match sound and meaningg. Vainglorious is one, shit is another.
Thank you! (you receive today’s !)
Leila
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Impissable – an affliction of older men with enlarged prostate.
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