Monday 23 September 2013

Mustache-Mask

A Runt Raised From A Milk-Crate's Curdled Drippings ,
With His Associate From Some Fraternal LumberYard,
Arrived InConspiciously To Aggravate And Stir,
Mustache-Masked And Wrinkled Chunk-Faced... Such The GentleMan And His Sir,
Chivalry And Its Chevaliers As If On Call From Cervantes,
Though Questionable In A Change Of Wardrobe... MayBe As George And Lenny...
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May Be By The Work Of Twain... Their Migration Through Depression Could Lead Their
Bare Feet To Those Proud Marys And CrawDaddys,
Running As Fugitives Through Acres Of Spring Wheat,
To Smoke-Houses And Steam-Baths,
Card Sharks Tilt Their Heads... Slightly... To The Echoing Draft Of Future Tense,
The Two Roost From UpOn Top Bunks... In A Room With The Truly HomeLess,
Promiseing One More Week Of Stay...
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Till Then... A Tale Epic Through Its Gandering!
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One Has Come In Search Of A Golden Organ,
'Fore Harps Can Be Plucked And Loosed,
He Has The Passionate Charity Of A "Sister",
When All Else Be UnPheasantly Goose'd...
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Seeking The Slumber Of Pasture So PeaceFull,
No Wolf Can Lie In Wait,
Speaking Soft To All Stone-Hearted,
Bringing Calmness For His Bait...
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The Other Be In Turmoil,
Needing Silver For His Lung,
He Closes Open Shutters,
And Bangs On E'ry Rung...
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When At Time It Is For BreakFast,
He Shines Like Children Do,
Chaseing RainBows From The Windows,
And Knocking E'ry Shoe...
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They Both Will Leave UpOn The Day,
Their Mission Done Or Naught,
For Their Golden Organ To Be Chalice'd,
Or To Their Chapel Be It Brought.









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