American Gentleman
American Gentleman
He’s obsessed with Industry and Commerce:
He commemorates it by sniffing iron fillings,
Masticating rusty nuts and bolts and hooks
Which he then washes down
With a pint of crude oil!
Gas stirs Life in his impious Heart and Spirit:
He roast a steak of beef with a Cutting Torch
Slice bread and buns with a jagged Hacksaw
Then brushes russet dentures
With brass Wire Brush!
He’s a Lover of Ammunition and fast Guns
Smoking Pipe is a butt of an up-turned Pistol
Virginia Tobacco is laced with gun powder
That is force-filled in the void butt chamber...
He enjoys jerking by the recoil
Of exploding smoke!
He’s infatuated quite easily and quite deeply;
He then endeavours to arrest the lewdness
Donning rusty zinc or aluminium underwear
Yet, the vicinity has children
Who look like him!
He’s a Lover of Horses, bruited near and abroad
With which he employs strange experiments
To bestow him overzealous human children
Without “complaining” mothers
For endless war abroad!
Brave Conqueror, Vanquisher of fast renown
Who lives more in the wild abroad than Home
Rattling famished sabres and hungry swords
Carrying him round the World;
Ship, Plane and All!
Arriving at the Port from his interminable wars
Vaunted “Peacemaker” boots dripping gore
One of the ardent coteries whispers in his ear:
“Hearken to the lily-white Statue of Liberty!”
“I’m an American Gentleman,
“The French donated it!”
JM
21st Oct’ 2013
Copyright © Joseph Matose | Year Posted 2013
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