Enter Colossus
About this time
in an Alpine
summer resort
The male fruit
of a Celtic couple
is baptized
Colossus
And the first time
that ever he sits up
devouring his pap
It is as if a pillar of iron
erects him
in place of a spine
And the first time
he opens his eyes
wittinglyвБ†вАФ
вАЩTis like an eagle
soaring on the sun
and the first time
he communes within himself
he decides
All words are lies
His gracious little ladyвБ†вАФbird
of a mamma
dresses him in velvet suits
of gentian blue
determined she will do
her best to keep him
a little gentleman
like his ancestors
even
if he does not live in
London
Her idea of rearing a son
is showing him to everyone
in the drawingвБ†вАФroom
for them to praise him
which idea is rather distorted
by the little one
throwing the teaвБ†вАФpot
at M Follilot
because her top-knot
displeases him so
And who
would care to call at
any house
on finding the young master in the hall
pissing into our reverend pastorвАЩs hat?
He like so many of us
has his own sense of fun
and when his governess offers him a bun
вАЬBring me a bifsteek de femme
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and under done!вАЭ
These women run
in all directions
when he appears
This palpable
evidence of his motherвАЩs
unfortunately
having given birth to a criminal
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Postures of a monster
coincident
with the Christian
introspection
of Ova