Morning Coffee

Reading the menu at the morning service:

– Iced Venusberg perhaps, or buttered bum;

Orders the usual sex-ersatz, and, nervous,

Glances around; Will she or won’t she come?

The congregation dissected into pews

Gulping their strip teas in the luminous cavern

Agape’s sacamental berry stews;

The nickel-plated light and clatter of heaven

Receive him, temporary Tantalus

Into the Lookingglassland’s firescape.

Suckled on Jungfraumilch his eyes discuss,

The werwolf twins, their mock Sabellian rape.

This is their time to reap the standing scorn,

Blonde Rumina’s crop. Beneath her leafless tree

Ripe-rumped she lolls and clasps the plenteous horn.

Cool customers who defy his Trinity

Feel none the less, and thrill, ur-vater Fear

Caged in the son. For, though this ghost behave

Experienced daughters recognize King Leer:

Lot also had his daughters in a cave.

Full sail the proud three-decker sandwiches

With the eye-fumbled priestesses repass;

On their swan lake the enchanted icecreams freeze,

The amorous fountain prickles in the glass

And at the introit of this mass emotion

She comes, she comes, a balanced pillar of blood,

Guides through the desert, divides the sterile ocean,

Brings sceptic Didymus his berserk food,

Sits deftly, folding elegant thighs, and takes

Her time. She skins her little leather hands,

Conscious that wavering towards her like tame snakes

The polyp eyes converge…. The prophet stands

Dreading the answer from her burning bush:

This unconsuming flame, the outlaw’s blow,

Plague, exodus, Sinai, ruptured stones that gush,

God’s telegram: Dare Now! Let this people go!

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External links

Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus

Talking Writing Monster’s Page –

Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh

Poems in English 

• Юрий Верховский – Месяцу, заре, звезде, лазури by Юрий Верховский
• Юрий Верховский – Как раненый олень кидается в поток by Юрий Верховский
• Юрий Верховский – Есть имена, таинственны и стары by Юрий Верховский
• Юрий Верховский – Ах, душечка моя, как нынче мне светло by Юрий Верховский
• Жан де Лафонтен – Язычник и деревянный Идол by Jean de La Fontaine
• Жан де Лафонтен – Врачи by Jean de La Fontaine
• Жан де Лафонтен – Воля и Неволя by Jean de La Fontaine
• Жан де Лафонтен – Волк, Мать и Ребенок by Jean de La Fontaine
• Жан де Лафонтен – Волк и Лисица на суде перед Обезьяной by Jean de La Fontaine
• Жан де Лафонтен – Волк и Конь by Jean de La Fontaine
• Жан де Лафонтен – Война Крыс и Ласок by Jean de La Fontaine
• Жан де Лафонтен – Виноградник и Олень by Jean de La Fontaine
• Жан де Лафонтен – Утопленница by Jean de La Fontaine
• Жан де Лафонтен – Третейский Судья, Брат милосердия и Пустынник by Jean de La Fontaine
• Жан де Лафонтен – Старый Кот и Мышонок by Jean de La Fontaine
• Жан де Лафонтен – Ссора Собак с Кошками и Кошек с Мышами by Jean de La Fontaine
• Жан де Лафонтен – Совет Мышей by Jean de La Fontaine
• Жан де Лафонтен – Смерть и Несчастный by Jean de La Fontaine
• Жан де Лафонтен – Скупой, потерявший свое богатство by Jean de La Fontaine
• Жан де Лафонтен – Шершни и Пчелы by Jean de La Fontaine

More external links (open in a new tab):

Russian Commerce Agency

Dealing Monster

Doska or the Board – write anything

Search engines:

Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)

Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.

Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees

Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.

Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.

 

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