Shoals Surfer
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Joined: Monday, 4th July 2011, 16:26
Thursday, 26th January 2012, 22:30
Another silly poem
Coming to Terms
Magnanimous, I free my serfs. The best
Abandon home and hearth without delay
Like migratory swallows. Sadly, they
Envision no return in fairer weather -
Perennial pecuniary hooks
Await beyond my fief for men of skill.
They leave me with the birds of drabber feather,
The simpletons, the shiftless, and the crooks.
Enraged, I lash, I slash, I slay until
Remorse sets in awash in freshly dead.
No man remains. With peasant blood impure,
Bereft of my subordinates, I tread
Alone amid my desolate domain,
Lamenting: Lo! how fallow lies the plain
Deprived of human labor and manure!
No sooner than I utter this, my men,
Embracing earth no longer, rise again -
Still simpletons or thieves, but I am blessed,
Secure with some, at least, if not the best.
Magnanimous, I free my serfs. The best
Abandon home and hearth without delay
Like migratory swallows. Sadly, they
Envision no return in fairer weather -
Perennial pecuniary hooks
Await beyond my fief for men of skill.
They leave me with the birds of drabber feather,
The simpletons, the shiftless, and the crooks.
Enraged, I lash, I slash, I slay until
Remorse sets in awash in freshly dead.
No man remains. With peasant blood impure,
Bereft of my subordinates, I tread
Alone amid my desolate domain,
Lamenting: Lo! how fallow lies the plain
Deprived of human labor and manure!
No sooner than I utter this, my men,
Embracing earth no longer, rise again -
Still simpletons or thieves, but I am blessed,
Secure with some, at least, if not the best.
