The Piggy-wig (2/4)
 

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They danced by the light of the moon,
The moon,
The moon,
They danced by the light of the moon.
....................................The Owl and the Pussy-Cat, Edward Lear



The Piggy-wig


Like a tree in a wood the Piggy-wig stood
silently spirlling his shillling.
As he watched, on the sand, their sweet saraband
slowly he filled up with killing.

A shilling they'd offered. A shilling he'd took
like he was the pigeon and they were the rook.
But see it he did. O, he caught him a look.
The pair of them cooing and billing.

Piggy is full up on killing.

As plain as the nosey the needful they had
all wrapped in a fiver and begging for bad.
A bundle like that it was going to waste.
So, why shouldn't he have a suckle, a taste?
A pig with that poke could be out of this place
and done with the Turkey, forever.

He'd show that old bird who was clever.

And they won't be missed. He didn't suppose,
fing'ring the shilling-ring-holes in his nose.
A Bong-tree club – you have to get close.
It won't be the first. He'd done some of those.

And the Sea washes all blood away.
O yeah, the Sea washes all blood away.



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I'm not sure what's going on here, Richard, but I like what you've done with it. It does have a Lear-like energy. It seems quite chilling, though.

Do you know Auden's poem on Lear? I just discovered it recently. Really good.

Cheers

David

Hi Richard,

Glenn serves up a serial killer, my Leda kills a swan/god without remorse, and now Piggy-wig goes back on a deal of trading its nose ring (showing evidence of prior robber/killer escapades) and goes away a shilling to the good and nose ring back in its possession. The owl and the pussycat do not get happily married but are clubbed to death with some bong wood put to further use, and the sphere gets redder and redder with blood. Is "spirlling" supposed to be some form of spiraling? I don't know what else to ask except is this supposed to be a song in 2/4 time?

All the best,
Jim

Hi David.

I'm not sure what's going on here
My take on what happened next.

Do you know Auden's poem on Lear? I just discovered it recently. Really good.
The one that ends,
And children swarmed to him like settlers. He became a land. ?
Terrific, isn't it?


Hi Jim.

Piggy-wig goes back on a deal of trading
He was bilked he'd tell ya.

and goes away a shilling to the good and nose ring back in its possession.
To be fair to PW he hasn't actually done anything ... yet (prior evidence notwithstanding.) He's merely contemplating. And it would surely be more than a shilling to the good. There's all that 'needful', wrapped up in a five pound note, don't forget.

"spirlling" - my invention.

I don't know what else to ask except is this supposed to be a song in 2/4 time?
A question I'd never considered, can I get back to you on that?

Thanks both.

RG.

D'oh! I should have realised. I will go back to that to take a look.

Cheers

David