The Pooh-Bahs

Stay focused as an icon makes its surge upon the stage as self-contained, assured. I weigh it 'gainst a candle who's matured. While tapers toil all night and scents converge, the pooh-bah is about to reemerge. The fragrance fine, but pooh-bahs can not rest 'cause candles never argue - who's the best? True flames fulfill their course throughout a scourge of dark and damp. No ploy have they to purge a faint and feeble, fellow wick who wanes. The grudging pooh-bahs' narcissistic brain rebels at such an unpretentious urge. The pooh-bah makes his plea, a drooling dirge - "Me first," "Pick me," "No, I'm the one you want." Note, candles speak with tongues quite nonchalant and as they do their melting tapers merge. Author's Notes: The name of the haughty character Pooh-Bah in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado (1885)