The Happy Henchman from:
‘Hoot Owl Hollows’
The
Happy Henchman
From
“Hoot Owl Hollows”
“Come and be killed,” howls the ISIS deviants.
Cutting
people into fisher-bird slabs—
Their
death is as clear as a buoy’s bell:
Their
souls in a viperish shell!
“Dilly,
dilly,” says the devil, and calls the lot
His
green chickens of the bay, that cluck
In
the bushes, when he says “Dilly, dilly.”
And
as his Henchmen cry, they obey:
“Come
let us die!” and the blithe birds in the
Elm,
hail their retreat to the fiend, with
Spur-of-the-moment
cracking of feathers,
And
sparrow hail of bird drops, and astray
Bird
whistles. Now the Henchman hides in the
Weeded
edge, between hell, heaven and earth:
Leading
his IS deviants, like green cocks or hens
To
“Hoot Owl Hollows,” in Tartarus, otherwise
Known
as: The Great Chicken Coop.
No: 4744/ April 1,
2015
