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RECIPE: “Poulet Roti” French Style - Ballade Le Chant Royal 6 (NOTE: This French “ballade” is being composed on permutations of the number ONE repeated twice, I.e., 11. Eleven syllables to the line in iamb or anapeste, interposed with dactyls, I guess, and of course with the ENVOI added. Eleven lines to the STANZA in eleven in res media “instalments”involving the minutely PERSONAL in interaction with the larger hoi polloi in relation to the STATE and its tentacular authoritarian apparatuses designed to keep the independent INDIVIDUAL always nailed in limbo.) T Wignesan STANZA VI “So why don’tya get out of this Third World hell !” Near-East stronghold now in Maghreb stranglehold Where Asians and Africans mingle pell-mell Where the French affix sign-boards on their soil: “SOLD!” The moonlight flit now turned to Indian rope trick Where East Europeans come thick and homesick To join the ranks of those from South-Euro lands Who make much of the Far Right extremist brigands Les français de souche* still commute to keep jobs Like they once nostalgic did in foreign lands The migrant refugee does odd jobs and robs ENVOI French lasses push prams with babes sunburnt inlands No Tariq Ali* need turn back for want of bans May the World colourless be sans hapless gods Or will it taken over be by hooligans The migrant refugee does odd jobs and robs *Les français de souche: the French of stolid French ancestry. *Tariq Ali, the Berber Moor alighted on the rock of Gibraltar, in 709 C. E. , with 30,000 horsemen, and by 711 had over-run the Iberian Peninsula, but Abdul Rahman al-Gafiqi, the Governor General of al-Andalus, who tried to extend the conquests further into Europe was halted in his tracks by the Frank Charles Martel at the Battle of Poitiers/Tours in 732. (c) T. Wignesan - Paris, 2017
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