04-10-2016, 09:04 PM
J/s I'm 0
I'm hurriedly writing a poem about things I'm not.
So I'll begin with the obvious - a Huguenot
digging up the grave of Catherine de Medici,
bombarding the Pope with stinky tofu fettucce -
these I'm not, nor a Polish ployglot*.
It is easier to define me by what I don't like,
such as Martians gone postal on the Jersey turnpike,
shooting phlegm bullets at the NYPD forces
singing the Marseilles ten hours on the trot,
than for the things I genuinely fancy -
I'll politely wait for you to ask me "what?"...
*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POrHkdojbNc
I'm hurriedly writing a poem about things I'm not.
So I'll begin with the obvious - a Huguenot
digging up the grave of Catherine de Medici,
bombarding the Pope with stinky tofu fettucce -
these I'm not, nor a Polish ployglot*.
It is easier to define me by what I don't like,
such as Martians gone postal on the Jersey turnpike,
shooting phlegm bullets at the NYPD forces
singing the Marseilles ten hours on the trot,
than for the things I genuinely fancy -
I'll politely wait for you to ask me "what?"...
*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POrHkdojbNc
~ I think I just quoted myself - Achebe