Friday, 1 April 2022

Gerrit Komrij (1944-2012): 'Bugaboo'


 

BUGABOO

 

Strip me of poetry and

I’m a mailman nothing more

A counter that’s lost the score

A man with no magic wand

 

Divest me of my masks and

I’m a starch-necked minister

A hair-splitting word-twister

With marble grave close at hand

 

A bungler who’s trundling along

The sunset his ultimate stop

All love of mankind’s judged as wrong

And bunglers are all for the chop

 

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