Poetic-Verses from ATHANASE
An Irascible Pasquin
An Irascible Pasquin
to a modern Harpale
'Love turns into hate in less time
than it takes Eros to become Eris'
  John Owen
You're just a grovelling little flunky!
You say you're something in the 'graphic arts'
but there's no more skill in deciding where an image goes
on a website than showing people to their seats in a fleapit!
And who looks at your work? Cretins whose hearts,
minds and souls have been surgically removed!
Now you've earned a few shekels, you think you're Lord Muck!
But you haven't got enough balls even to play the role
of the cunning serving man who always gets his own back,
because you still bear the smell of where you came from: bird shit!
translated from the French of Athanase Vatncev de Thracy by Norton Hodges
20.04.08.
to a modern Harpale
'Love turns into hate in less time
than it takes Eros to become Eris'
  John Owen
You're just a grovelling little flunky!
You say you're something in the 'graphic arts'
but there's no more skill in deciding where an image goes
on a website than showing people to their seats in a fleapit!
And who looks at your work? Cretins whose hearts,
minds and souls have been surgically removed!
Now you've earned a few shekels, you think you're Lord Muck!
But you haven't got enough balls even to play the role
of the cunning serving man who always gets his own back,
because you still bear the smell of where you came from: bird shit!
translated from the French of Athanase Vatncev de Thracy by Norton Hodges
20.04.08.
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An Irascible Pasquin
An Irascible Pasquin