Mars & Avril
Mars the Brat marched in with the melting snow,
blew around town, whistling at all the chicks
and trying to lift up every second skirt;
Mars, that crazy, schizophrenic Brat,
one minute waterbombing us for kicks,
next minute grabbing some poor sucker's hat
to fling it like a gauntlet in the dirt
while in his eyes a killing cold would show.
Then Avril flew in like a vernal breeze
and though the Brat dissed that girl's style of bling –
her flowers, rainbows, birds in blossomed trees –
she made him laugh, and cry, and even sing,
and slowly, gently as a meadow breathes,
the Brat went down, disarmed by love in spring.
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George J. Dance, 2007
from Doggerel, and other doggerel, 2015
[All rights reserved - used with permission]
Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510), Venus and Mars, ca. 1485. Public domain, Wikipedia Commons
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