{"id":26,"date":"2006-08-12T00:26:05","date_gmt":"2006-08-12T04:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=26"},"modified":"2006-08-12T00:26:05","modified_gmt":"2006-08-12T04:26:05","slug":"my-rosy-tomatoes-pop-squirting-from-your-awful-rotten-grave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2006\/08\/12\/my-rosy-tomatoes-pop-squirting-from-your-awful-rotten-grave.html","title":{"rendered":"My rosy tomatoes pop squirting from your awful rotten grave"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tLucifer Sansfoi
\nVarlet Sansfoi
\nOmer Perdieu
\nI.B.Perdie
\nBilly Perdy
\nI’ll unwind your
\nguts from Durham
\nto Dover
\nand bury em
\nin Clover—
\nYour psalms I’ll ‘ave
\nengraved
\nin your toothbone—
\nYour victories
\nnilled—
\nYou jailed under
\na woman’s skirt
\nof stone—
\nStone blind woman
\nwith no guts
\nand only a scale—
\nYour thoughts and letters
\nShandy’d about
\nin Beth<\/i>
\n(Gaelic for grave<\/i>).
\nYour philosophies
\nrun up your nose
\nagain—
\nYour confidences
\nand essays bandied
\nin ballrooms
\nfrom switchblade
\nto switchblade
\n—Your final
\nduel with
\nsledge hammers—
\nYour essential
\nsecret twinned
\nto buttercups
\n& dying—
\nYour guide to 32
\nEuropean cities
\nscabbed in Isaiah
\n—Your red beard
\nsnobbed in
\nDolmen ruins
\nin the editions
\nof the Bleak—
\nYour saints and
\nConsolations bereft
\n—Your handy volume
\nrolled into
\nan urn—
\nAnd your father
\nand mother besmeared
\nat thought of you
\nth’unspent begotless
\ncrop of worms
\n—You lay
\nthere, you
\nqueen for a
\nday, wait
\nfor the “fen-
\nsucked fogs”
\nto carp at you
\nYour sweety beauty
\ndiscovered by No Name
\nin its hidingplace
\ntill burrs
\npart from you
\nfrom lack
\nof issue,
\nsinew, all
\nthe rest—
\nGibbering quiver
\ngraveyard Hoo!
\nThe hospital
\nthat buries
\nyou
\nbe Baal,
\nthe digger
\nYorick,
\n& the shoveler
\ngroom—
\nMy rosy tomatoes
\npop squirting
\nfrom your awful
\nrotten grave—
\nYour profile,
\nerstwhile
\nGarboesque,
\nmistook by earth-
\neels for some
\nfjord to
\nSheol—
\nAnd your timid
\nvoice box
\nstrangled
\nby lie-hating
\nearth
\nforever.
\nMay the plighted
\nNoah-clouds
\ndissolve in grief
\nof you—
\nMay Red clay
\nbe your center,
\n& woven into necks
\nof hogs, boars,
\nbooters and pilferers
\n& burned down
\nwith Stalin, Hitler
\n& the rest—
\nMay you bite
\nyour lip that
\nyou cannot
\nmeet with God—
\nor
\nBeat me to a pub
\n—Amen
\nThe Almoner
\nhis cup hath
\nno bottom,
\nnor I
\na brim.
\nDevil, get thee
\nback
\nto russet caves.
\nA Curse at the Devil, Jack Kerouac<\/cite><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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