PostPoems Be Artistic. Be Creative. Be Inspired!

I do not deny that you have been long reviled

for your part in the humilation

of your Lover, the Poet, Oscar Wilde,

to offer some amelioration

to your punch-happy father's aggravation.

You cast undue complexity

upon Homosexuality.

You relied upon many prejudices

the way a herniac depends on trusses.

But the most mysterious anomaly

is that, despite your spoken excesses

(the kind any hater gladly professes),

you could compose such poignant Poetry;

such a charming poem---that beautiful piece

of beauty you called Jonquil And Fleur-De-Lys.

ENVOI:

Yet, Sir, whenever I read any Poem

of yours, I think of your rage and fury,

and the slurs launched from your mouth in a hurry

befitting the hatreds of . . . oh, say . . . Ernst Rohm.

Starward

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