Green King Kong (drama! death! great winds!)

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Critical Analysis #2

Green King Kong (drama! death! great winds!)

netsky
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since 2005-03-29

Posts 148
Miami

0 posted 2005-04-17 01:02 PM

A comedy poem follows in the next form below this introduction

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"KONG!  Come see the mighty King Kong."

Do you recall the classic 1931 movie version?  Do you recall the final dialog of that film?  It was a soliloquy:

"Nay, it was -beauty- that killed the beast".

Hah, now the movie's  take-off from classic literature gets twisted up again.

"KONG"  as a giant ficus tree that  fell in result of Hurrican Frances and blocked the street just ouside our driveway
this past September in Miami Florida

The poem  is a lampoon of several things.

please be blunt or enjoy it for what it is:
a sendup with sarcasm in proper measure.

-entirely true-  in all details

next form......

netsky
Member

since 2005-03-29

Posts 148
Miami

1 posted 2005-04-17 01:02 PM

Slower now this page may load
as giant greenling shows its fall
by hand of Frances' fringest winds

It started life small ficus twin
same kind we see in lobby pots
Here our ficus grow out doors
used best as primly private hedging
staving off in-prying eyes

Rapid trunkage left untrimmed
in few years stood up Goliath
of majestic height yet tenuous grip
its grasp to vital anchor Earth

And so this giant plant unpotted
hoved over gave up its view to the sky
blocking our street
for days on end
Mayor Diaz entouraged daily
to psalm to Press it would be chopped
(Goliath groaning in mobid state)
grandstanding Mayor making Self
taller than ever this Green Kong

It was not Beauty who killed
the Beast (he in the black colored Tee)
No, it was the Winds of Frances
topped and trited by Winds of Diaz
daily for six days' wake when
chain saws (violins) came to fiddle
to dirge
Green Kong to death
and dust

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