Aristophanes Farted

                This is actually the only one of his plays I've read so far.
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Aristophanes farted
in the eyes of the Stoics
Aspasia noticed
they seemed not impressed

he then aimed his ass
right at the Pantheon
("o he would not DARE!")
no he wouldn't

then boring ol' Plato & Aristotle
walked by & got it bad
A. pointed to the whores & boomed,
"now then, LAFF!!

I weep for the loss of the unread
scrolls, unremembered gibes,
the plain beauty of Cleopatra &
swordednakedoilySpartanwomenwarriors(WOOHA!)

this isn't all about Greece
("Dr. Susruta will see the Sphinx now")
or other dead satanic democracies
um...

the matrons prepped the tub,
laid out soap & towels & a dozen
clean razors for the hairy Sorbonne-educated
wolf-girl. "MERCI!" she cried "MERCI!"

YOUR LIFE IS NOT
WORTH HALF A RAND,
GO LIVE ON A KRAAL
IN ZULULAND!!!

if having mass orgiastic intercourse
in the agora with all the female slaves
you bought there is wrong...
uh, what was I saying?

Ras the Tigre & his fresh crew
are just kickin' it
in their limbo crib now,
knamean? Word, dawg.

the cloud dwellers & golden children
must surely be getting strong migraines
from all that thinking that they're
better than the REST OF US!!

what force had caused
my pencil to bleed such
detached, unusual verselets
that even Sappho might have enjoyed?

the Brunnhilde key does not
seem to fit well into the keyhole
yet it will not conform itself
so that it can fit

Aristophanes must have wept much
before he died because the world
must still have seemed so young & vibrant way
back in his time...& there was
never enough time to fully enjoy it
or fart to his hearts content

Ari, this one's for you...FRAAAPP!!
WOOHA!!



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