LINES WRITTEN UPON FIRST LISTENING TO DOCTOR BOGENBROOM BY JETHRO TULL

A poem by Vercingetorix Sepulveda

 

O! Savage & vile & pink & bloated thing!

Curs'd uncanny globule of despair!

Monstrous, too! So pale & shuddering!

Its gleaming talons clawing at my hair!

 

Hast this being come t' announce my doom?

Its head is like a chaffinch or a gull.

It has been sent by Doctor Bogenbroom,

Invoked by minstrel-wizards Jethro Tull.