David McLansky Poems

Odysseus and the Suitors
And then the stranger let loose his string
And like a lyre, it did sing;
Sending arrows tipped with bronze
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They lashed their Captain to he mast;
Bound him tight as he did ask;
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The Duke and Duchess
Bill and Kate
Were standing outside
Elaine’s Estate.
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Below the Sperrin Mountains
In County Tyrone
Reigned the King of the Fairies
Who sat on a throne
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To my angry, shrewish bitter wife,
Who threw at me both pan and knife,
Who told me I was bound to fail
And end my life in debtor's jail;
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Stay with me
Don’t slip away
Be here with me
Don’t fade away
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Why must the Puritans
Be so vexed?
After all
It's only sex;
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I held a feather to your lips
To catch a breath, a tiny wisp;
In hope the feather would gently swell
Signing life still in you dwelled
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I watch my Mentor weep
His hooded eyes fight the urge to sleep;
And yet they question him
To make him speak;
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Mortals all
Blind we fade
The prophecy
Not clear in the cup
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