Sinister: parrot fusion

[Robert Brennan]

I read the news today, oh boy.  Running battles on the
streets of Brighton W. Sussex involving poets,
tranvestites and DIY equipment.  Wow!

Are assassins all we can be bothered to send to each
other these days?  We used to send nice presents and
tropical birds y'know.  Which brings me to the
question of WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO THE POETRY
PARROT?

I still have claw marks in the lino from where our
good friend once visited me as he did many other
sinister types, politely asking for - sometimes rudely
demanding - some lovely poetry before fluttering off
to visit the next hapless sinisterene.  Apparently
it's a family business dating back to Middle Ages when
the Madrigal Macaw would harass the peasantry for
lusty songs.  But for months now - nothing!  Has he
fallen in love and shacked up with one of you?  Or has
he gone the way of the Pottery Pteradactyl?

Rather than visit the archives to find our where PP
last alighted, I thought I'd use the time honoured
method used in school.  I'll leave the room and
whoever's got the parrot can leave him on the desk. 
I've left some seed.

Better leave some poetry as well...

PSALM

I am not lyric any more
I will not play the harp
for your pleasure

I will not make a joyful
noise to you, neither
will I lament

for I know you drink 
lamentation, too,
like wine

so I dully repeat
you hurt me
I hate you

I pull my eyes away from the hills
I will not kill for you
I will never love you again

unless you ask me 

           Alicia Suskin Ostriker

Robster
http://liquid2k.com/robster75


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