Big ideological statements
Giant snakes
One expects to get one or the other
One is rarely deprived of both.
The means are the simplest
As the audience files in
a small army of white-dressed people
are placidly picnicking.
As the music starts
they strip off their clothes
and paint each other blue.
Yes, it sounds weird
but the Ring is weird.
Sometimes they are slaves
Sometimes they are even inanimate.
The gods all sport matching platinum hair.
They don’t try to fool us
and yet something about them
is perfect anyway.
Picked out of a review of Wagner’s opera Das Rheingold on the blog Likely Impossibilities. The word ‘are’ replaces ‘seem to be’ in line 8. Submitted by Grace Andreacchi.
Verbatim Poetry 