Once upon a wicked weekend, while I stumbled, lost and bleary
I came upon a brassy bird whose only utterance was, “Absurd”.
There he perched upon my bust, wings stirring up my chamber dust
and as I grabbed a broom and pan he croaked that pointless word again
that fair and radiant raven whom the demons must have named 'Absurd'
sitting there, dropping turds.
In my drunken state of sorrow, I pondered if he had too many drinks, too;
and I asked him, "Oh, foul feathered creature, why the only utterance of 'Absurd'?”
His two red eyes, gleaming embers, scarcely aware of what they remember
this horrid spectre at my door who flew in from the Nevermore
croaked its only birdbrained stock and store
and then an echo murmured back, “Absurd.”
I looked around, nothing there...
Staring simultaneously at two walls, how I longed to hear it call
instead it spoke that only word, as if from hell, it shrieks, “Absurd!"
I asked it of my lost love Rose, and peering close, it pecked my nose;
I swung my bottle, it was so unfair, so not to hear that damned “Absurd”
but the dirges of my hope, since I’m a melancholy dope,
and a drunkard with bad aim, only heared the word “Absurd” again.
Right then and there my fight was lost, I cursed the Fates our paths hath crossed
I never dreamed demise-conferred would be a peculiar, absurd bird.
So now I’m nodding, it’s a-flapping; I'm now a-snoring, it’s still a-flapping
and it frightens away the salesman who came a-knocking at my door-
this grim, ungainly, gaunt and ghastly, schizophrenic, croaking, mangy
flapping, screechy, pecking, bug-eyed, lowly catatonic bird
who screaming stock and store is that only utterance, one "Absurd".
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Hmmm... maybe the little guy will earn his keep, after all...
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and ill make this one of my fav and bookmark it
This is such a jewel. I have no idea what the original read like but I do like what you have done here. Your talent far exceeds the ordinary dribble and tidbits that are often dropped here and there. I do enjoy reading you. You never fail to please my literary palette and fill my mind with thoughts and images that I might not otherwise entertain. Good luck in the contest!
