Good day to you all. I'm not sure whether I'm the appropriate person for this monday poem business, since I'm not particularly literate or familiar with the idiom. It is some years since I was in school, y'see. However, since I appear to be 'it' for today, I shall give you 2 poems by Don Van Vliet alias Captain Beefheart. I like them because they have a similar sense of mischief as his marvellous music and make me smile. I have a cd of him reading them which is unlistenable because he's suffering from some debilitating illness and clearly finds speaking quite difficult. I'd rather imagine him reading them out in his booming 5 octave glory, waving his arms around like a madman. Righty-ho. The Tired Plain The bra was white and yellow elastic and held to foam cones the corners triangular shaped pyramid three edges made one point starfish and embry boards triple D cupped and poked to a point the main character was composed into a bow that broke first in the front and equal on adjacent sides American Cowboy was approaching on a collision course -his hands groped outstretched three digits triangular to the front nail a line was drawn from the middle finger to the knuckle of the index finger across the middle finger onto the third- creating a perfect arrow with an imaginary point Skeleton Makes Good There's so many things to feel and see while you're awake they're just out of reach out of grasp out of reach and just as many, maybe more the minute that you sleep so I got to throw my preach skeleton breath scorpion blush I have a crush on your skeleton watch out unsuspecting stranger you'll fall off the log headfirst into dreams end up screaming this will comb the wolf and that will comb the fog what will peen the rain what will preen the hog oh you mean earth and hell over you and laugh at your tyre tracks if you get up skeleton makes good. All shy now. I choose .....(waves mouse randomly).... Miss Erin. If she's about. Sheepish hug, joss +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+