Madam Anna, as a gal's gal can call a mall a ballpark, drama a mantra, and Santa a phantasm. Ann Rags backs banal art, can crash a fast car, smacks chaps and grabs cash. Ann: a raw charlatan that charts chart-bands and plans tart plans. Ann darts fast gab at sharp lads and gals and adds harsh sarcasm. Ann's back can Atlas garb as rag-tag as a Sandman's shark and scabbard scars, a rampart crack-jack war-man and clansman's tartan, and a braggart farmhand's alfalfa bags and sacks. Madam Anna can't stand barf-bag scrap-rags as back's straps. Madam Anna's bath-mats, cravats, shawls, bras, pants, spats and flat black slacks wash at class act lava mats.
Madam Anna has Hallmark cards, Martha's arts and crafts, and grabs crap at K-Mart and Wal-Mart. A mama that has a papa's bravada can scam at canasta far past a man's standards. Madam Anna can watch Casablanca, fawn and bawl. Madam Anna has a padparadschah charm that a man can jack and hawk at a bazaar and pawn at a crack-bank (pawn-mart). Madam Anna can't stand crawdads and has prawns and lasagna.
Stark, Ann Rags has a brass tax that all Adams stand back and gasp at. Ann Rags had a daft spat, crab attacks, and can't stand Alaskan crabs and tartar. Ann has salad and ranch. Ann Rags has a Dad. Sam calls Dad: "War", Sam's damn-all-man stanza, "All arms and abs shall mash and smash Allah's man and gals. Thwart a Raj and a Taj Mahal! Grab all lands afar, Madagascar, Ashkhabad and Kandahar Hard-pack all Arab wharfs and land. Brawn, tanks, and Sam's flag, catch-as-catch-can." Dad can't call Ann back at all. Nam flashback? Kafka's gnat, Samsa, appals. Bastard Samsa lacks a Dad's stamp and hands. Dad's angst cracks Sam's back.
Ann has hands that can craft camshafts and cars that jam tarmac and asphalt paths. LA rats and asps gag and snarl. A Hazmat man has a Black Flag can that’s half-gas and part pharmacal Satan. Ann grabs a can and thwarts all rascals. Ann can catcall at a catwalk "spa"(a swank and fragrant tramp camp).
Falstaff and Hank grab a tall draft and chat as chaps and gals all plan calls and scams. A harp twangs a sharp ballad, a rasta-jam that apt at a standard hash-plant gala, a bash at a casbah.
Madam Anna asks a man that stands at hand: "Can a thrash-band that jams Satan-slam jams cram a caravan van and land at a Valhalla hall as jam a jar jams?" Man scans, stands and warns Madam Anna: "A grand-bandstand band can grab cash as a war-hawk wars, A jazz-band scams ganja and schnapps, and blasts ass-farts at Dads, all blatant scat. A Rap-star gangsta acts all gang-land, and packs gats and straps and smacks a trash-rat scamp's ass. Add mad grab-sack and that's a rap. All hard bands and acts act wack. Call a Bard." "Alas," gasps Madam Anna, "Plans sans carnal strands? Call a Bard!" And Madam Anna's past tact was back.
A glam ska band jams at Panama Jack's. Zag wraps wrap crabgrass. Gal and man spark hash and blackball stagnant annals and laws. Marx fans scan Kant and plan a calm task-at-hand. Gal and man track Galahad and D'Artagnan's saga and warpath and tack a gallant match aback an astral path. An ash-black hand grasps all plants, dark falls, bats call, and maps flash back. Landmarks mark a bat's path and as a landfall a bat grasps an ankh that hangs and flaps at half-mast. A Harvard frat can't match a phat bash that an LA flat can hatch.
All casts of man and gal can slam cans of spam, ham, lamb rack, and fat slabs at a farmland barn-bash at a Ranchman's ranch. A fan claps as ranchland Dallas Stars smash-grab-dash. Ball snaps, Half-back pass! AGHAST! Man dans grass. Hands ransack snacks, scratch backs and balls. Gals grab and splash ajax that stabs nasal tracts.
At Madam Anna's gala ball, a Sax-man ran a tab, a barman barfs and gags, a star and stars pass dada-graphs. Fans smash bars: all jackals, stags and mallards of Ann's mal arc. Ann drank grappa and spat tar back.
A Dark Bard, Lachlan MacTarnahan, sprach ballads and stanzas fast and sharp: "Spawn warms, larval ants hatch, all casks shall crack! Tap and draw, and mark a spar, at Kazakhstan, Samarkand and Khanabad, mark a palatal ball, draw back and bark!" Maws gnarl abstract pagan Bacchanal chants. Mars gnaws manna, bananas and flan. Taps pass malt that a draft glass can catch. Drams at haphazard bars tax fat cash stacks flash fast.
Lachlan splats flat, as a vagrant spartan casts a fatal stab. Lachlan's last schwa, "Amanda!" Lachlan's pact snaps. A vandal bandman flags an Arab cab-man, Hassan, a Saharan that sat at Aswan, Rabat, Basra and Dakar. Agha Khan Hassan Abd al-Hassad brags a knack at craps (smart at math?), has carpal cramps, anal warts and a charlatan's rash (that dastard ) Hassan cranks a crankshaft as fast as Ann Rags calls a man back. As harts and carp catch a dart and pang, a bandman stabs a bard, grabs a cab, scats past a gang and phalanx, and starts a war. All ranks (dwarf and tall) can hacksaw a bandman's hand that stabs a bard and smarts canvas art.
Dawn crafts a vast parallax. What was a saw backward?
Author notes
Bantam: adj. "aggressive and spirited"
The poetic device here is restricted vowel usage. Only the vowel "a" is used in the "poem". This creates an "aggressive and spirited" pace and diction, hence the appropriateness of the title, which also restricts itself to the vowel "A".
Enjoy!
Written June 11th, 2005
