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[title] => The Legions Wear Lichens
[time] => 2009-01-25 13:59:26
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[bodytext] => The legions wear lichens Like lepers, all along the sickest steppe, And spots plague the men like felled heifers— The men who wring their strep. Lettuce snuffed off during infancy And the bunny tangled by the lops, Potato vines rival fast ivy And stymie the shyest of crops. If only for barley, berries, pies— Parsnips, carrots, and cale! Prithee find soda bread, scallops, or shallots. Deliver us matrix of ale. The leprechauns laugh behind linen; For, the earth exudes potato perfume. With sweat on the brow they wrestle, With a song in the bosom they groom At the barnacles brown and sea-nicked Bursting from the underhanded soil. Fondly remember the old swine And wine both jaunty and royal. Their shells are skins almost horrent On the pestilent sea of green vines. The leprechauns laugh behind linen! And poke at potatoes with tines. These coots must be drunk from the Flowers, pink blossoms five petals Abound, and stout is no match for the Tubers; tubers catch felled fools in nettles! Pregnant with starchy endeavors, Yet parched from the monotone mash, The men don lesions like lepers When their teeth are want to gnash A mainstay save the once-blighted Precious potato abloom with aplomb, And flushed, they yearn for a feast with all Of the manifold promised by mom. [comments] => 1 [counter] => 146 [topic] => 73 [informant] => screwge [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 10 [ratings] => 2 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => abstract )
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