Dichtersbankje | Poet's bench | Gail Foster

 

Foto: Peter Bevers | Eton

Uit de collectie Bert Bevers (keuze dichter en gedicht) voorraad Mannen van Bevers : Gail Foster 👉

Quis, Ego

 

Quis? Ego ~ on the anointing of Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson 

 

So what if it was just a drunken dare 

Quis? Ego! Made at Eton long ago 

I dub thee Boris of the Golden Hair

 Servus, servum, servi, servo, servo 

 

So what if afterwards they went to town

and ordered tiny sparrows stuffed inside

six rare exotic birds and chased it down

with virgins' tears in mouths so open wide

 

one could believe designed to fit the poor

in at such times there are no partridges

Amo! Amas! Deus! Deum! and more

 

Dom Perignon! To Boris! Boris is

The Chosen One! So long ago, the dare

At Eton, or more probably, elsewhere

 

 

© Gail Foster 24th July 2019

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