Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Poem 20


 

Hey! You! Everyone! Listen!

It could be, yes, that somebody's pissing -

But my concern is greater tales;

Tragic events, flagons of ale;

Tortured words that cannot fail.

I

Salmon colored was the sky

When Rolf da Noft went out to try

Wrong righting for small fry.

His mighty stead of Harley line;

His boots and jacket of leather fine;

His purpose to justify all nine

Gallons in his tank

By capturing the robbers of the bank.

Tying them fast to handle bars

Only to deliver them to prison bars.


 

II

No word of caution would he brook

As he raced to catch this crook -

Whose family waited in get-away

With fire power and desire to pray.

At eighty-five Rolf's sight was clear -

With head unclouded by wine and beer.

Not so the crooks that fled by car -

Their lifestyle betrayed by fat cigar

Dipped in brandy in the back seat

Where fumes prepared the driver for defeat.


 


 


 

 

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