T Wignesan Poet Ballade

Recipe: Poulet Roti French Style -Le Chant Royal - Instalment 4

RECIPE: "Poulet Roti" French Style - Le Chant Royal (Instalment 4)

(Note: Rhyme scheme of “Le Chant Royal” where capital “E“stands for refrain, thus – Stanza: ababccddedE, Envoi: ddedE)

STANZA III
The idea's to pluck the chicken naked dead
But to keep it alive so long as there's fun
Stick pins and needles all the time on its head
So that when the COQ crows you know the bird's done
Was Marquis de Sade Torquemada's agent
The Socialist Mayor now out on tangent
Wishing spindle glass tower turns ivory
To keep him in power sans democracy
Get henchmen to preach comeuppance damnation 
Tighten screws on chicken spit sans clemency
Now that lame bird can't fly away sans nation

ENVOI
          Vain Socialist pique harks back to idiocy
          Lax morals sport with intellect's papacy
          Skinned and spiked chicken calls for condemnation
          Do Napoléons fear Waterloo or Holy See
          Now that lame bird can't fly away sans nation

(c) T. Wignesan - Paris, 2017

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