Trousered Ape
An exercise in presumption.
Saturday, May 26, 2007
If Homer had been really, REALLY lazy:
Agamemnon, wroth, put down his foot.
So Achilles in his tent stayed put.
Till the gods interfered,
And Patroclus got speared:
Then a whole lot of Trojans went “Phut!”
Odysseus, chock-full of guile,
Had adventures, returned from exile,
Confronted the suitors
(Those rotten freebooters),
And slaughtered them all in fine style.
Agamemnon, wroth, put down his foot.
So Achilles in his tent stayed put.
Till the gods interfered,
And Patroclus got speared:
Then a whole lot of Trojans went “Phut!”
Odysseus, chock-full of guile,
Had adventures, returned from exile,
Confronted the suitors
(Those rotten freebooters),
And slaughtered them all in fine style.
What happens when I wake up at 3 AM:
An amateur burglar, quite reckless,
Stole a Duchess’s emerald necklace,
But returned it perforce
In a spasm of remorse,
For his soul was not Hydeous but Jekyllous.
Between sitting and tying one on,
And going and mowing the lawn,
Con the pro- and the anti-,
And decide: “A votre santé!
I shall hobnob with Anacreon!”
An amateur burglar, quite reckless,
Stole a Duchess’s emerald necklace,
But returned it perforce
In a spasm of remorse,
For his soul was not Hydeous but Jekyllous.
Between sitting and tying one on,
And going and mowing the lawn,
Con the pro- and the anti-,
And decide: “A votre santé!
I shall hobnob with Anacreon!”
Friday, May 11, 2007
Tell me, who in the know can I go to
Who'll explain this mysterious "motu"?
Is it blue? Is it green?
Is it clean, or obscene?
Does it taste more like chocolate, or tofu?
Who'll explain this mysterious "motu"?
Is it blue? Is it green?
Is it clean, or obscene?
Does it taste more like chocolate, or tofu?
Sunday, May 06, 2007
From Jay Anderson at Pro Ecclesia*Pro Familia*Pro Civitate comes news from Chicago that has more than a whiff of brimstone about it: via Fox News, we learn of a law firm that has put up on a billboard the advertisement displayed above.
Jack Cade, thou shouldst be living in this hour -
Appallingly, attorneys advertise,
In words and images that blast the eyes,
Their matchless loyalty to Satan’s power.
“Thy marriage to thy happiness shall prove
A stumbling block, a vile impediment.”
So, lying, they defame God’s sacrament
Embodying Divine and human love.
No devotee of Moloch or of Baal
Did e’er conceive a scheme so foul, so fell.
The Devil, doubtless, delves a deeper Hell
Than any, into which such souls may crawl.
Great Cade, return, that we may see them cower,
And by thy hand be cast down from their tower!
