Tim R. Mortiss
Drinking whisky by the peg,
Singing songs of drunken glee.
I thought to swallow half a keg
But Tim R. Mortiss degurgled me.
Not precisely comme il faut,
To practice frank polygamy;
I might have practiced, even so.
But Tim R. Mortiss disturgled me.
Chorus:
Tim R. Mortiss, Tim R. Mortiss,
He's a loving friend.
He holds my hand while I'm asleep,
He guides me on my four-day creep,
He's with me to the end.
To woo a dainty Eskimo
I vowed to swim the Bering Sea.
No sooner had I wet a toe:
When Tim R. Mortiss occurgled me.
A threat arcane, a fearful bane
Within an old phylactery.
I turned the rubbish down a drain,
Now Tim R. Mortiss perturgles me.
Chorus (with a snapping of fingers and clicking of heels in mid-air)
Tim R. Morriss, Tim R. Mortiss,
He's a loving friend.
He holds my hand while I'm asleep,
He guides me on my four-day creep,
He's with me to the end.
- Navarth
4 comments:
Tim R. Mortiss is my all time favourite Navarth poem. Wish Vance would release a collection of new Navarth poems :-)
Love this poem. It's also my number one... The man is true magician with words!
A neat parody of this.
Jack Vance is one of the only authors whose mastery of prose can make me laugh out loud, even if itsn’t overtly humorous.
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