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Jason McCarthy Nov 2014
I'm really enjoying this little beer,
Each sip doth speaketh un to me.
The green tint glass seems so sincere,
As if the bottle also ponders me.

And when I finish this little beer,
I'll roll a smoke regretfully.
As the bottle sits so empty clear,
It's label will plead its identity.
Verson ces roses pres ce vin,
De ce vin verson ces roses,
Et boyvon l'un à l'autre, afin
Qu'au coeur noz tristesses encloses
Prennent en boyvant quelque fin.

La belle Rose du Printemps
Aubert, admoneste les hommes
Passer joyeusement le temps,
Et pendant que jeunes nous sommes
Esbatre la fleur de noz ans.

Tout ainsi qu'elle défleurit
Fanie en une matinée,
Ainsi nostre âge se flestrit,
Làs ! et en moins d'une journée
Le printemps d'un homme perit.

Ne veis-tu pas hier Brinon
Parlant, et faisant bonne chere,
Qui làs ! aujourd'huy n'est sinon
Qu'un peu de poudre en une biere,
Qui de luy n'a rien que le nom ?

Nul ne desrobe son trespas,
Caron serre tout en sa nasse,
Rois et pauvres tombent là bas :
Mais ce-pendant le temps se passe
Rose, et je ne te chante pas.

La Rose est l'honneur d'un pourpris,
La Rose est des fleurs la plus belle,
Et dessus toutes a le pris :
C'est pour cela que je l'appelle
La violette de Cypris.

La Rose est le bouquet d'Amour,
La Rose est le jeu des Charites,
La Rose blanchit tout au tour
Au matin de perles petites
Qu'elle emprunte du Poinct du jour.

La Rose est le parfum des Dieux,
La Rose est l'honneur des pucelles,
Qui leur sein beaucoup aiment mieux
Enrichir de Roses nouvelles,
Que d'un or, tant soit precieux.

Est-il rien sans elle de beau ?
La Rose embellit toutes choses,
Venus de Roses a la peau,
Et l'Aurore a les doigts de Roses,
Et le front le Soleil nouveau.

Les Nymphes de Rose ont le sein,
Les coudes, les flancs et les hanches :
Hebé de Roses a la main,
Et les Charites, tant soient blanches,
Ont le front de Roses tout plein.

Que le mien en soit couronné,
Ce m'est un Laurier de victoire :
Sus, appellon le deux-fois-né,
Le bon pere, et le fàison boire
De ces Roses environné.

Bacchus espris de la beauté
Des Roses aux fueilles vermeilles,
Sans elles n'a jamais esté,
Quand en chemise sous les treilles
Beuvoit au plus chaud de l'Esté.
Then I entered a prize draw, but with no chance of winning, I can't draw for toffee and now, with my eyes spinning in the back of my head I'm gambling that this night will be merry, but what do I get? two melons and a cherry, ( the cherry courtesy of the all-seeing, me not being able to )

So,
is it a beer or should I have wine
a cote de rhone
or something from the Rhine
a
bitter,( which sounds German
or
a
Biere des sans Culottes L'ambree?
which is a mouthful in any language,

they make Fridays for these moments.
oops, it's cote du not de, silly me.
Mateuš Conrad May 2020
what's not a probably: Carslberg is the probably
of beers... budweiser is a something of
      könig, of biere... but... hardly:
fermenting rice... mongrel-upkeep with the
wheat, the bait: of barley... let us forget the hops...
the 'ops... zutaten:
           wasser - weizemalz... gerstemalz... hefe...
     hopfenextrakt... even if the irish have:
and weave their stout: pint of... mcguinness...
the irish can cabbie on home...
                                    franziskaner weissbier...
   even within the confines of the latin script...
exceptions have to be made... notably...
the germanic Z... and most notably the ß:
and... should -ss be ushered in...
                           {weißbier} contra the irish stout...
schwarzbier... zzz: no snoozing...
    harpsicord: somewhere? anywhere? now?!
central european: "c"...
no... not a cedilla and a greek ς-gma...
     ч: chess... riddle me!
                 чeß чeß чeß чeß чeß чeß чeß...
do the germans even use a snooZe?
it's still in cyrillic... цeit: nach sein...
                 franцiskaner weißbier...
whole lot of "confusion":
    the germans do not, really...
exactly have a "z":   цu: zo'oh... цentral:
              the "conversation" is still
concerning: beer... like the english...
well... c is sometimes a k...
but... the c is also sometimes a konçerning...
to no avail:
          a чeap phraße - it's not a greek
sigma or a cedilla disguising itself as one...
sharp german: s und z...
point being... to discourage:
                 z from "c" and цeit... sharp wit...
                      franцiskaner weißbier?
the only beer in the world... well: the weißbier -
                                                      anno. 1363...
and the irish stout: schwarцbier...
- the german caron š: sch-
and the east german: ich... which is...
i-sch... well... a mix-up...
sch- is a mingling mongrel of:
                     š + ś - which ranges as far north
                        of: scandinavia might allow...        
so much for me solving crosswords...
no wonder... little wonder: more, perhaps...
as to why i hardly: feign... or bother... myself...
that two languages: are entrenched...
   and a third and a fourth comes along...
a fifth... crossword puzzles are for
mono-lingual folk... no disrespected...
but by the time it would take me to learn
the joy of crosswords...
i would have to pass through an iron
maiden of hardship... in unlearning a language
i call my own: learned: acquired:
"stolen"... nothing organic about it...
             nothing: native...
       it's better that way...
         little wonder then: concerning
the topic of loan words...

here's one:
      that angry dog tag-line...
better in greek:
      
                  αρσoνιστ!
                         μεινε μακρια...

the beast is always: apparently "tamed"...
because ol' lizzie spoke to me...
and ol' charlie too...
but the average englishman / woman
has no... *******... concept...
of private property...

white smoke... rising... from burning...
pure organic material...
since... the recycling centers are somewhat
congested / closed...
asthma is a problem: "problem"
for a person... smiling trigger happy...
no token 'ere...
    and because it's: back to your cages!
because: katherine! and a karen!
sayz so!
struck with blind caress of obedience
                                    for the "civic duties"...
perhaps i'm drunk... perhaps i'm not...
beside the point...
   i'm fuming like a chimney...
we used to play nice...
     we played nice... giggles and
warlords...
have us a tame 'ere ****** on a noose...
have us 'ere... n'ah... i'll wake up early
tomorrow morn and fish out a...
complete and utter: ******!

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