OMNESIA

OMNESIA

OMNESIA

I left my bunnet on a train
Glenmorangie upon the plane,
I dropped my notebook down a drain;
I failed to try or to explain,
I lost my gang but kept your chain –
say, shall these summers come again,
                        Omnesia?
You’d like to think it’s God that sees ya
(while He’s painting the parrots of Polynesia)
give your wife that fragrant freesia
            and not the eye of Blind Omnesia.
 
I scrabbled here and scribbled there –
a sphere of peers declined to care;
I roomed with hibernating bears
and roamed where cartoon beagles dare:
protect me by not being there,
Our Lady of Congealed Despair,
                        Omnesia!
You’d like the universe to please ya,
your admin duties to be easier,
instead you grip the pole that’s greasier –
            the shinbone of unskinned Omnesia.
 
I wibbled there and wobbled here,
forgot the thousandth name of beer;
I filled my head with clashing gears
and tried to live in other years;
I passed on fame, selected fear,
watered your name with ‘Poor Bill’ tears,
                        Omnesia...
So you lack ambition and pelf don’t tease ya?
still, me-memed mugwump prats police ya,
and Brit-farce forces queue to seize ya
            for the purloined pearls of Aunt Omnesia.
 
I’d like to think the Muse remembers –
not that teaching starts in late September –
but the first of fire’s dying embers,
that glow on Cleopatra’s members;
my further lovers’ choric timbres…
Did I fiddle with their numbers,
                        Omnesia?
You hope it isn’t Fate who knees ya,
the Ship of Fools which makes you queasier,
or Mister Scythey come to ease ya
            into the arms of Dame Omnesia.