Dingo the Dissident

THE BLOG OF DISQUIET : Qweir Notions, an uncommonplace-book from the Armpit of Diogenes, binge-thinker jottings since 2008 .

Sunday 24 May 2015

Peter the Great of Russia

used Pushkin's Ethiopian
great-grandfather's belly
as a pillow, because the poet's ancestor
was a present from the Sultan of Turkey.
But this is not the reason why
I always wanted to have beautiful skin
that unpleasant people would call murky.

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