Date:
Author: Don Operatico
(donoperatico@hotmail.com)
Subject: Shakespeare on Escamillo
Your toast I can return, because,
señors,
we bullfighters and soldiers are
alike:
Yes, both like slashing stuff apart
with swords!
The stadium's full, the gang is
getting psyched,
The stadium's full of holiday
berserks;
the spectators all lose their heads
and scream:
they yell out insults like a bunch
of jerks,
and treat the noble beast with
scant esteem.
Toreador, on guard, toreador!
Toreador! And think well as thou
bash'st,
yes think that a black eye on thee
doth bore,
of one whom by machismo thou
abash'st!
And love awaiteth thee, or if not
love,
then sex at least with maid in dark
alcove!
Date:
Author: Don Operatico
(donoperatico@hotmail.com)
Subject: Figaro's a Poet and
Didn't Know It
First, a word about the Escamillo.
I left out a line earlier and
have just edited it.
If, my dear Count, you want to
dance around
with my wife, while you cruelly dis
your own,
dance then unto the tune my lyre
shall sound,
for none shall play the tune save I
alone.
I'll know, yes, every mystery I'll
pierce,
dissimulating I shall fool you yet;
reverse shall I all machinations
fierce:
take care while dancing, for the
floor is wet!
I'll trick you into thinking that
your wife
is doing you as you are doing her:
In vain you'll rage, because not on
your life
will matters cease for you to be a
blur!
Yes, if you want to dance, I'll
call the tune,
and make you feel like a confused
buffoon!
Date:
Author: Don Operatico
(donoperatico@hotmail.com)
Subject: Operatic Sonnets
In Appalachian Deutschland was I
born,
for I did lusten after mine own
aunt.
My second cousin is the drittë
Norn,
and for her flesh my bro'-in-law
did pant.
I am as Aryan as a Sauerkraut:
no Dwarvish Untermensch is my
forebear;
one raised me, it is true, but I
found out
Mim's evil genes -- not that I
really cared.
When I had done away the
Untermensch,
I learned with joy a woman's not a
man,
for women attributes have that can
quench
my libido, oh wogah! how
they can!
Alas, I can't tell K and B apart,
but either one I'll order à la
carte.