--- title: Filthy - 1 author: AlpaViraam published: November 1, 2022 tags: poetry, filthy --- * 1 #+begin_verse Trying to be calm Trying to be stealthy Rodents of the war Sneaking by the wealthy What is up with this vanity Why is this all so filthy? Kindness was fraught Or so were we taught Mother was frail Father no worth more than nought We raise our heads to our golden God And pretend to feel his affirming nod. #+end_verse #+begin_export html #+end_export #+begin_verse The kind nod was interrupted All prayers utterly disrupted Stood there quietly the dandy man His dead man's ledger in his hand The royal gylph of inclination Told the rabid dog's next decision. The jaded old man killd abruptly The dog, no the fox moved oh so subtly At least the poor man went away smiling Quiet were the tides of the misery riling Ma was horrified, desiring all but death Oh but she was spared. She would have liked the former nonetheless. The dog had pups and the pups were fierce The harlot was taken surrounded by the spears Left was an animal, so very strange Might he be worth some silver change Look at him cry, look at him quiver Collar, but no clothes, look at him shiver. #+end_verse