Let us at Risk-Taking Dave
Lengthily rave
For choosing to live in a cave
Also, The Choice of a Gorilla
That could demolish a stout slave
And wrestling Victory not release to a Godzilla …
To Risk-Courting Dave
Now in Echoing Cave
To improve on His high Octave
Mention that he’s risking an early grave
For not being The Muscularly Brave
That termites his fresh corpse shall crave
As he deigns to ways for it pave …
The soonest of requiems in a nave
For his life he never could save
With pleas Gorillas aside wave.
Threatening priceless life,
Murdering rival's wife.
The meanest of strife,
For election victory staining the knife.
In the white man's world, somewhat unthinkable
And if it's their energy ship, assuredly sinkable.
A pillaging of property
And pushing of political opponent to poverty,
The electorate rubbishing his vote:
With criminals dumped in the same boat
Via rainy flows
Of body - damaging blows
Always offering indecent job
To the muscularly strong
From the unemployed throng
Leaving democracies to sob.
A wise-cracking tourist in a Greek art gallery
keeps heckling the cute curator with an inquiry;
why, he asks her, the muscularly athletic gods
and demigods, supposed to be sturdy like steel rods,
often appear softy, un-masculine and are shown
wearing skimpy, see-through clothing they've outgrown,
as they stand, run or fight in poses effeminate:
Zeus whimsically choosing thunderbolts from a plate,
and god of war, Ares, striking a lethal sword blow
with graceful arms, dainty fingers and a ballet toe;
Apollo standing like he has just smoothly curtsied,
as Achilles waltzes through a combat he fancied.
The irked curator says it's not her obligation
to fill the gaps in the tourist's art education !
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