English Rose

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English Rose

Early

English

everlasting

quadrate Rose

paradoxвБ†вАФImperial

trimmed with some travestied flesh

tinted with bloodless duties

dewed

with LiptonвАЩs teas

and grimed

with crack-packed

herd-housing

petalling

the prim gilt

penetralia

of a lustre scioned

core-crown;

Rose of arrested impulses

self pruned

of the primordial attributes

вАФ

A tepid heart

inhibiting

with tactful terrorism

the (Blossom) Populous

to mystic incest with its ancestry

establishing

by the divine

right of self assertion

the post-conceptual

virginity of Nature

Wiping

its pink paralysis

across the dawn of reason

A World-blush

glowing from

a never-setting-sun

Conservative Rose

storage

of British Empire-made pot-pourri

of dry dead men

making a sweetened smell

among a shrivelled collectivity

Which august dust

stirred by

the trouser-striped prongs of statesmanship

(whenever politic)

rises upon the puff of press alarm

and whirling itself

deliriously around the

unseen

Bolshevik

subsides

in ashy circularity

вАЬa wreathвАЭ upon the

unknown

soldierвАЩs grave

And Jehovah

strikes,

through the fetish

of the island hedges,

Exodus

who on his holiday

(induced

by the insiduous pink

of AlbionвАЩs ideal)

is looking for a rose

And the rose

rises

from the green

of a green lane

rosily-stubborn

and robustly round

вАФ

Under a pink print

sunbonnet

the village maid

scowls at the heathen

Albion

in female form

salutes the alien Exodus

staring so hardвБ†вАФ

warms his nostalgia

on her belligerent innocence

вАФ

The maidenhead

drooping her lid

and pouting of her breast

вАФ

forewarns

his amity

вАФ

Amorphous meeting

in the month of May

вАФ

This Hebrew

culled by Cupid on a thorn

of the rose

lays siege

to the thick hedgerows

where she blows

on Christian Sundays

She

simpering in her

ideological pink

loaded with Mosaic

passions that amass

like money

implores her to take pity

upon him

and come and be a вАЬlady in the CityвАЭ

Maiden emotions

bread

on leaves of novels

where anatomical man

has no notion

of offering other than the bended knee

to femininity

and purity

passes in pleasant ways

as the cows grazeвБ†вАФ

For in those days

when Exodus courted the rose

literature was supposed to elevate us

So the maid

with puffy

bosom

where Jerusalem

dreams to ease

his head of calculations

in the Zero of ecstasy

and a little huffy

bristles

with chastity

For this is the last Judgment

when Jehovah

roars

вАЬOpen your mouth!

and I will tell you what you have been readingвАЭ

Exodus had been reading

Proverbs

making sharp distinction

between the harlot

and the Hausfrau

arraying

her offspring in scarlet

approving

such as garner good advice like grain

and such as know enough

to come in from the rain

вАФ

The would-be

secessionist from IsraelвАЩs etiquette

(shielding pliant Jewesses from shame

less glances

And the giving

of just percentages

to matrimonial intermediaries)

is spiritually

intrigued

by the Anglo-Saxon phenomenon

of Virginity

delightfully

on its own

defensive!

This pouting

pearl beyond price

flouting

the male pretentions

to its impervious surface

Alice the gentile

Exodus the jew

after a few

feverish tiffs

and reparations

chiefly conveyed in exclamations

вАФ

a means of expression

modified by lack of experience

unite their variance

in marriage

Exodus

Oriental

mad to melt

with something softer than himself

clasps with soothing pledges

his wild rose of the hedges

While she

expecting

the presented knee

of chivalry

repells

the sub-umbilical mystery

of his husbandry

вАФ

hysterically

His passionate anticipation

of warming in his arms

his rose

to a maturer colouration

which was all of aspiration

the grating upon civilization

of his sensitive organism

had left him

splinters upon an adamite

opposition

of nerves like stalactites

This dying chastity

had rendered up no soul

вАФ

Yet they pursued their congugal

dilemmas

as is usual

with people

who know

not what they do

but know

that what they do

вАФ

is not illegal

Deep in the nevrose

night

peruses this body

divested of its upholstery

firmly insensitive

in mimicry

of its hypothetical model

a petal

of the English rose

An abstracted Ada

in myopic contemplation

of the incontemplatable

compound rosette

of peerless negations

That like other Gods

has never appeared

leaving itself to be inferred

Whereof

it is not seemly

that the one petal

shall apprehend

of the other petals

their conformity

For of this Rose

вАФ

wherever it blows

it is certain

that an impenetrable pink curtain

hangs between it and itself

And in metaphysical vagrance

it passes beyond the ken

of men

unless

possessed

of exorbitant incomes

And ThenвБ†вАФ

merely indicating its presence

by an exotic fragrance

A rose

вАФthat like religions

before

becoming amateurвБ†вАФ

enwraps itself

in esoteric

and exoteric

dimensions

the official

and inofficial

social

morale

The outer

classes

accepting the official

of the inner

вАФ

as a plausible

gymnastic

for disciplining the inofficial

вАЬflesh and the devilвАЭ

to the ap

parent impecca

bility

of the Eng

вАФ

and for

Empire

what form could be superior

to the super-imposed

slivers

of the rose?

The best

is this compressed

all round-and-aboutвБ†вАФ

itself conformation

Never letting out

subliminal infection

from hiatuses

in its sub-roseal skeleton

Its petals hung

with tongues

that under the supervision

of the Board of Education

may never sing in concert

вАФ

for some

singing h

flat and some

h sharp вАЬThe Arch

angels sing HвАЭ

There reigns a disproportionate

disвАЩarmony

in the English Hanthem

And for further information

re the RoseвБ†вАФ

and what it does to the nose

while smelling it

вАФ

See Punch

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