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IF YOU PULL A LONG FACE : Part XXIX IF you pull a long pained face The kind poets affect and gladly display Throughout the ages with their lonely-heart feelings in lyrical grace You might end up Precious Pearl in harem of some Arabo-Turkish Bey If you then pull that longingly pained long face In verses thin and sweetened long to Your Lord and Master Bey All night long pulling at the tassels of your silken robes pyjama lace Your turn might never come to whisper rosy verses under moonlit ear Yet if you keep pulling that long lone-heart face Know that Eunuchs too might not averse be to your corvée And might listen close to every lilting line behind burka lace Unless in Looney Bin the Bey thinks fit to let you long stay Now if you pulled that long left-alone pale face During long-stricken nights while silken moon-shafts through casements stray Your face wan the tang of your pulled flesh less and less sinuous in bed-wise ways With luck you might at his table serve as a taster of macoronic verse play So if you must go on pulling that long Parson's face Pull it while chopping up pork ribs for crispy crunchy helpings à la Canard Lacqué None will miss appreciating the tango twists and twirls in your hurt-feelings vice-verse Everything's grist to the salmagundi soup the pot-pourri pulsed poem à la Chop Suey © T. Wignesan - Paris, February 5, 2019
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