Devil Bird of Dunne County: Cantos XL-XLII
Narrative Verse
Electra Movie Camera image by Joe Haput CC BY-SA
Devil Bird of Dunne County: Cantos XL-XLII
by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole
XL
The rabbled group gaped, and this strained to learn,
Could ambition theirs for more than booze burn?
Or were they forever doomed to be dumb,
A compendium of staggering bums?
The frog-king agreed, at least in his tale,
‘Twas no going back, and …