Pope a dope

[revolutionrabbit]

Pope gave you enough rope to hang your self
a thousand times from the clock tower's midnight hand
how unbecoming, you only swung like a pendulum do yourself
a shoe lace tied in a hangman's noose
by some masonic minded clown on the edge of town
you could only laugh at the absurd gesture
as you look at neat little tie job on your doc martin

could have, could have used that as a clue to the mystery
could have added it to the pile of other ones, the used
charms that are found at the scene of the criminal poet, Pope
pointed to the exit, gave a leaver,you thought is was a cleaver
left a lever and likewise they thought it meant clever, clever devil
they

you could have dislocated the pinnacle that caused this
whole edifice to rise like a ancient singing temple from the sea
yet decided that Alice through the Looking Glass was not
profound enough to use as your spy glass to watch the
too clever crows steal the crumbs off your toes

you could have been Swift, but you thought about thrift
you could have been a thief of fire but instead screamed
fire in the empty movie theater and tossed popcorn at the
dead screen, could have been Swift but only became miffed
oh you riffed this and that like some drunken alley cat
like a drunken sailor extra in some ancient mariner rhyme of
barfing over the railing of the Lost Dutchman, or some other
lost ghost ship in the ocean of spilled poetry

Pope left a key, you thought it meant pee in the alphabet soup
Swift was too at large, so you only read the charge of the Light
Brigade, goodby the rose, the twain shall never meet Poe

[hester_prynne]

Lotta good stuff in here.
My mind, activated.
Thinking things like
da luck a da i wish,
or Eng al land swings
lika...
lika this lots....
H