Five Ways to Kill a Man
Jimmy 'Blues Bruiser' Potts likes poetry. I like poetry. One of the favourites I promoted was the gentle Edwin Brock. Or you can take a length of steel, Dispensing with nobility, you may, if the wind In an age of aeroplanes, you may fly These are, as I began, cumbersome ways to kill a man."There are many cumbersome ways to kill a man.
You can make him carry a plank of wood
to the top of a hill and nail him to it.
To do this properly you require a crowd of people
wearing sandals, a cock that crows, a cloak
to dissect, a sponge, some vinegar and one
man to hammer the nails home.
shaped and chased in a traditional way,
and attempt to pierce the metal cage he wears.
But for this you need white horses,
English trees, men with bows and arrows,
at least two flags, a prince, and a
castle to hold your banquet in.
allows, blow gas at him. But then you need
a mile of mud sliced through with ditches,
not to mention black boots, bomb craters,
more mud, a plague of rats, a dozen songs
and some round hats made of steel.
miles above your victim and dispose of him by
pressing one small switch. All you then
require is an ocean to separate you, two
systems of government, a nation's scientists,
several factories, a psychopath and
land that no-one needs for several years.
Simpler, direct, and much more neat is to see
that he is living somewhere in the middle
of the twentieth century, and leave him there."
1 comment :
Hey I know that poem! Wonderful. I still say you should buy a mouth-harp. It's the best way to bruise the blues.
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