The Greatest Show: A Poem for Spring

The majesty of poetry.

For your edification and enjoyment, from the "Poetry Korner Kompilation"
Erasmus Binkster, editor, [Coprolyte Press, Hellmouth CA, 2000], p 9. 

This slender volume has long been out of print, and is somewhat difficult to find. 

The Greatest Show: A Poem for Spring 

See the pinks, the blues, the yellows, the Reds,
Watch the flowers open their pretty heads!
For it starts the road to summer,
In a field of glory, getting a hummer! 

The sun is warm, and it dries my face,
As my equatorial zone starts its race!
The grasses change from brown to green,
And ladies asses in see-through dresses are everywhere seen! 

All the cute fuzzy animals are to a Purpose Aligned,
The deer, the bear, the squirrel: One Mind,
The Primal Fandango is truly hard-wired,
Why just waking with wood, makes this boy tired! 

With birds in the air, the clouds multi-layered,
With a song on their lips, that's Carole Bayer-Sager'd!
Tom-tits, jaybirds, robins-no slackers!
'Cause all these guys have stiff little peckers! 

The show can be seen on a trail near you,
It's there in plain sight, unless you're missing a screw.
You'd better hurry, it's there only briefly,
At the whim of Yours Truly, The Auld FP, chiefly. 

—signed, The Aulde Forest Prince

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