Tuesday, April 15, 2008

maria and pedro

Maria and Pedro

A Limerick Saga

By Izzy Sommers

Maria, latina from Ecuador,

Met Pedro, content in the corridor;

She twinkled her eyes

And measured his size

Conceding, perhaps, he had four or more.

Expecting the worse, she evaded him

In favour of Alex, the tiny Tim;

Complete with the veils

She tempted his sails

And added his brother inside the gym.

Exhausted, Maria declined to come

With Tim and his Jim to the Thimble Thumb;

Instead she took wine

With lemon and brine

To rooms in the Restaurant Crushy Crumb.

Surprised by our Pedro of Mexico,

Maria accepted a gift to go

To old town Madrid

Where no meant you did

A dance of the genre of Toronto.

In essence, Mario fit Pedro’s gun

Like holster’s submitted by everyone;

She glowed for the crowd

And whispered out loud

If Pedro were Jewish, he’d be the one.

When Pedro converted to Heresy

Maria converted to Vanity;

Together they made

A couple and laid

The tiles for a bedroom in Coventry.

The talk of the town was the statuesque

Maria adorned with computer desk;

She dazzled her beau

With beer and Bordeaux

Behaving so Sartre- and Kafkaesque.

In chalets and copacabanas they

Insulted some wives with some curds and whey;

Ole, said Jose

As both of them lay

Frontal naked in London and Mandalay.

This story must end with some strategy

To filter off comedy/tragedy

Assaulted in June

By Daniel the Boon

Maria got pregnant celerity.

When Pedro defended his honour with pride

The Boon ripped large hole in his underside;

Poor Pedro was pooped

And had to be scooped

By Atkins and Barrister Fratraside.

Maria was left with a swollen hump

To ward of the charges that made her jump;

She had her cartoon

Redrawn in Khartoum

And settled for honey and half a lump.

Resolved to correct any rumours of

Collusion and mayhem and puppy love,

Maria refined

Her star undermined

And posed in the nude for the Turtle Dove.

Republished in Spain, Greece and Portugal,

Maria’s Madonna, “SENSATIONAL!”

Rekindled the star

That’s seen from afar

On mountains and forests in Senegal.

Suffice it to say, there is evidence

That love found it’s way through the forest, dense,

That over the years,

The joy and the tears,

The white picket fence was a good defence.

Maria may you have your pleasure in

Marcello, Petroika and Pallidin;

You’ve lived like a queen,

So sobre and clean,

It’s shameful you’re throwing your shmatteh in.

THE END

©Izzy Sommers

Welland, Canada

March 5, 2008

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