Ancestral vestiges of tambourine
Show me not your golden purse,
Show me not your silken gown
Show me not your cold, cruel heart,
Show me but the brazen crown.
Taste the wine from wintry grapes,
Taste the mystery of the age;
Taste the anger feel the rage,
Taste the danger of the apes
Tell me not of rich men's woes
Sour wine or faulty robes,
Tell me why the anguish grows
Sour and acid in my lobes.
Teach me how to dance the frug
Soured with the taste of squid
Anguished brow it should soon soothe,
Rhyming not lest they forbid.
Contributors: | Stacy, TG, The Agent Apsley. |
Poem finished: | 24th February 1998. |