"POEMS"
Lolita
Hippolytus
Lolita
Lolling about on the grass
the students brush up
on their Nabokov
as a means to an end
they want of course to pass
so they get out their annotated
Lolitas and together get inebriated
on the allusions and puns
making their way to the exam
hall, they come across
Edgar Allan Poe and his
poem "Annabel Lee", while
up in a tree, with a smile of
a Cheshire Cat, dear old
Vladimir, and look there's
an anthology of American
poetry in a cadillac,
and up in the sky, [this
mnemonic is rather tiresome],
a parody of what, and the
student, sweet fifteen,
suddenly forgot, was it
morality?
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Hippolytus
"Fay's behind the bar
while Goody-two-shoes
is shooting pool --
it didn't seem far
back when Hippolytus
was in school
now he has grown up
into a handsome hunk.
Aphrodite is singing
a soul number, while
in the corner, Artemis
a Country and Western
preacher, tells him
to save his virginity
for a rain day --
and it is a matter
of course that the
Goddess Aphrodite
should lose her
temper, call it
divine jealousy.
Fay's husband, Theseus,
is rather too
conveniently away
on business --
so out of sight, out
of mind, Fay's
got it bad, got it
hot, she wants to
go all the way
and her confidante
an old barmaid
says well what's
wrong, it's not as
if it is incest,
besides in the nineteen
nineties, who cares?
People wouldn't blink
an eyelid if you
jumped your step-kid.
So, she argues in a
drunken slur,
why not tell him?
Fay might be all hot
and bothered, but
she has her pride
and her dignity
it wouldn't do for
the barmaid to spread
it around that Fay
is after Hippolytus's
virginity.
But she did,
and from then on
life was a blur.
Goody-two-shoes
was astonished,
and was on the
way to confront
his step-mum
was it true that
she wanted to fuck
her handsome
hunk of a son?
Before he could get
there, she had hung
herself from the pub's
chandelier, Theseus
came back just in
time to see her
on the sofa, a note
in the hand, an
incriminating piece
of evidence, of course
he wasn't to know
that his son had
promised not to tell,
he cursed him, swore
at him, kicked him to
hell, and Goody-two-shoes
took off on his motor-bike
but didn't get far
because he was under the
influence of alcohol
Poseidon beer,
Theseus arrived in the
nick of time
at the hospital
and found Artemis
alongside his dying son
she told him that there
had been no affair
he had jumped to
the wrong conclusion
and Aphrodite had
known all along
what had happened
an allusion to the tragedy
had been in her song.
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