Limerick
Why don't you
trip the switch to Limerick?
Beam your changelings into gold
Why don't you
jewel your chameleons
in a monastery?
Because I drank
the cup of another tribe
not yours
not your clover wine
My tribe
has furlongs
corn and bayous
Hurricanes and sweetmeat
still battling afar alongside Ali La Pointe
I read of Neptune's ghost ships
a bracelets of dreamers lining
The deepest southern seas
All men bleed there.