Rosie Perera

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"All Things Dull And Ugly" from Monty Python's Contractual Obligations Album

All things dull and ugly,
All creatures, short and squat,
All things rude and nasty,
The Lord God made the lot.

Each little snake that poisons,
Each little wasp that stings,
He made their prudish venom,
He made their horrid wings.

All things sick and cancerous,
All evil great and small,
All things foul and dangerous,
The Lord God made them all.

Each nasty little hornet,
Each beastly little squid,
Who made the spiky urchin?
Who made the sharks? He did!

All things scant and ulcerous,
All pox both great and small,
Putrid, foul and gangrenous,
The Lord God made them all.

Ode to That Unusually Unloved, and Ungodly Man (Donna Pintin's Rant, Told Potently)

All things most unscrupulous,
All wars -- not least Iraq,
All killing and attacking,
George Bush, he caused the lot.

Each fume that wrecks the planet,
Each act that gets us mad,
He did it all corruptly,
He doesn't care: "Too bad!"

All things most immoral,
All dullness great and small,
All things rash and doltish,
George Bush, he did them all.

Each vacant, childish grin unfurled,
More silly than a kid,
Who made the French so angry?
Who made them pissed? He did!

All things lax and dastardly,
All horrors that do gall,
Simpleton, quite startlingly,
George Bush, he did them all.

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We don't need no education
We don't need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teacher, leave them kids alone
Hey, teacher, leave them kids alone
All in all it's just another brick in the wall
All in all you're just another brick in the wall.

Bush don't got no education.
He is into world control:
Kick those A-rabs and North Koreans.
W, leave world-rattlers alone.
Hey, W! Leave 'em all alone!
All in all it's just another dick in the hall.
(Cheney, I mean.) [Me accent. Tee hee!]
Major untrusted Dick in the hall.

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George Herbert (1593-1633) was fond of concrete poetry, that is, poetry whose shape describes the subject matter. This poem is called "The Altar" and it is shaped like an altar. It is the opening poem of his collected poems titled The Temple. An architectural entryway into a book that is very much shaped to be like a temple. My poem is about a broken heart (playing on Herbert's broken altar), a heart broken by a lover with a heart of stone (playing on Herbert's heart of stone). It is shaped like a heart, and its rhythm breaks down near the end, turning into a pool of blood below.

A  broken   A L T A R,  Lord,  thy  servant  reares,
Made  of  a  heart,  and  cemented  with   teares:
Whose  parts  are as  thy  hand did frame;
No workmans tool hath touch'd the same.
A    H E A R T     alone
Is    such    a      stone,
As      nothing      but
Thy  pow'r doth  cut.
Wherefore each part
Of   my   hard   heart
Meets  in  this  frame,
To  praise thy  Name;
That,   if     chance   to   hold   my   peace,
These stones to praise thee may not cease.
O  let  thy   blessed   S A C  R  I  F  I C E   be  mine,
And    sanctifie   this   A  L  T  A    to   be   thine.
    

The forlorn            heart's song
A broken heart doth     beat within my breast
Such sadness that a   maiden knoweth best
Who had her mad heart set upon thee
You creep, who dumpd me
Please accept my tears
For all those years

  
Shatter'd.
 
As
    if...

 

...it mattered.
                                            This heart of mine is disconnected
So also is this poem
 
                                       My love was foolish, carefree.
Thy heart of stone, intermittent, feeble.
 

That heartache can reach to thy aorta: a hard death!

(I'm a cynic, irate. Na, na, na, na!)

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