This crowdfunded poem
simply would not have been
possible
without
each and every one of you,
All,
Perfect buttons
of glinting dandelion-light,
Scattered around
this troll-freckled globe,
Hiding in plain sight.
But you knew that already, right?
Wonderful you all are.
Like,
Kernels of Shining
in astonishing human uniforms.
And it doesn't get much better
than that.
Not on this earth.
With a tambourine shimmy of modest economic growth:
The green shoots of recovery,
Bigger than the bonsai lumberjack's
stronger hand..
The Bonsai Lumberjack
Shaded, he snoozes under the
ineffable cherry blossoms,
The alien, pear-drop glittering
Mount Fuji
sheds her raindrops of lime,
They bounce off lily pads,
splash-splash,
onlooker eyes swivel,
there!...there!
to bemusement of
grasshoppers..
Between you all,
My twenty-one fellow Bloggers,
And a few dozen other followers,
(my small but dedicated cadre),
You have raised over eight-hundred-thousand pounds!
And particular salutations to:
Anon, from Finland, who sold her kidneys.
Yes - both! Amazing!
And, another Anon -
A modest plutocrat from Ukraine,
(certainly one of many),
Who gifted me their condo in Knightsbridge -
Plus, a humorous poet stipend,
Index-linked, tax-free, all that.
A delight as magical as,
My self-sacrificing
kidney-less fan.
You're truly all the penguin's antlers!
munificent nightingales swoop
moonlit lemon glades....
You're truly all!
You're rarer than a dodo playing golf!
Or,
a dodo who's never played golf.
Or,
Dido singing a song about a dodo
who plays golf.
- The dodo plays golf whilst singing a song about Dido.
You're rarer than the
pasteurised milk-drinking cow.
You're rarer than butter melting on
the divine lips of a
Daily Mail editor.
Look! (mist his steamy musk glands.)
how he eats stones with chopsticks,
And funny oblong bread made of soap.
It suits him: he knows what's good for
Us: Full stop after the colon.
And, above all,
without those,
extraneous exclamation marks.
!!!
You're all immortal now, and not for a limited time.
Even our Fin with no kidneys remains immortal,
Though only spiritually,
Which is better than nothing I guess.
(Some would give their right leg
to give up their kidneys for spiritual immortality.)
Rest in peace, her.
[we should be thankful for a right leg,
even if the right leg isn't technically ours
to be thankful for.
I'm deeply thankful for all your right legs,
And, don't even get me started on how besotted I am with your left one].
Frack and frankincense
Unicorns and atomic bombs
Telephone drones
Edward Snowden
I sincerely hope you enjoyed this poem
as much as I did receiving all your cash writing it.
We must do this again sometime - and soon!
How about next month?
Why not?
As many times as you like.
{I'm sitting here now in my foaming Jacuzzi,
With the Neptunian nymph,
Shangri-La.
The magical neon burnish of concrete fresco,
Stratford municipal casino,
rises,
all drifted, unmoored,
Stratford municipal casino,
rises,
all drifted, unmoored,
A phantom pirates' galleon}
Now, I promise,
All my crowdfunded poems -
Your crowdfunded poems,
Shall be as immaculate as this one.
Never shall I stint on Quality Control,
Nor take for granted the great wads of cash you insist on offering up to me.
Tough ask, I know.
But I owe it to you, my PayPal patrons;
You're the real stars here.
And don't let anyone tell you otherwise:
They're all bastards.
I'm not a bastard.
I don't look forward to ever having to let any of you go.
