Saturday, June 23

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:

星里 said...

Tim R. Mortiss is my all time favourite Navarth poem. Wish Vance would release a collection of new Navarth poems :-)

Anonymous said...

Love this poem. It's also my number one... The man is true magician with words!

John Cowan said...

A neat parody of this.

Big Al said...

Jack Vance is one of the only authors whose mastery of prose can make me laugh out loud, even if itsn’t overtly humorous.