SAPPHO’S FLIGHT
(a cheeky chant for zombies)
Nobody uses the stropha Sapphica any more,
not even Jacek Dehnel or Różycki,
why do they choose sonnets, when the Sapphic
stanza is sexy?
Top hat, bowler, have more grace?
A pointless hard-on, needless fart and cock in hand
belonging to a dull classicist in the 20th century
and the first, if you like.
Sooner the avant-garde will retrieve the crushed
remains of Sappho from her resting rocks,
dear artistes! Dress the bells,
perhaps you’ll get it up!
