A modest young fellow named Morgan
Had a hideous sexual organ;
It resembled a log
Dredged up from a bog,
With a head on it just like a Gorgon.
from "Three Limericks" by Edward Abbey
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WHAT? Such disrespect for Gorgons! Medusa is not amused.
JANUARY, 1952—MAJORCA II
—Edward Abbey
This body of mine—
bawdy, vile, full of bones,
odd noises, smells, bass tones,
glands, organs, jelly-sacs,
vapors, rheums, humors, packs
of fat, oil and grease; a bag
of bubbles, tricks, with a flag
of hair on top, a crotch of hair
and dangling sex below where
the bag divides and stands upright.
Is this, Narcissus, my inheritance,
wobbling muscles on a stagger-stance,
and all the eyes' fond roving,
a lip to touch and nothing more,
the mouth of Heaven's whore?
Mother, Jesus, Mary, Earth, Jehoshaphat,
I want rather more than that!
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You got that right, Ed...
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An old aging roue known as Drew
Looks back on his youth in sweet rue;
In the years of his might
He could do through the night
What it now takes him all night to do.
from "Three Limericks" by Edward Abbey
—Medusa
Medusa encourages poets of all ilk and ages to send their poetry and announcements of Northern California poetry events to kathykieth@hotmail.com for posting on this daily Snake blog. Rights remain with the poets.