{"id":4651,"date":"2016-10-22T19:58:57","date_gmt":"2016-10-23T00:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jaredmcdaris.com\/?p=4651"},"modified":"2016-10-22T22:33:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T03:33:29","slug":"robert-listons-snickety-snack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jaredmcdaris.com\/?p=4651","title":{"rendered":"Robert Liston’s Snickety Snack"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Robert Liston. Photo by Hill & Adams, c. 1845<\/p><\/div>\n

ROBERT LISTON’S SNICKETY SNACK, my first micro-epic poem, was debuted at Living Room Vauntgardia’s Vaunted House on October 21, 2016.<\/p>\n

ROBERT LISTON\u2019S SNICKETY SNACK<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Rob Liston, my specialty\u2019s amputation.
\nI\u2019ve acquired a grandiose reputation.
\nYou lie down on your back,
\nAnd with snickety snack,
\nYou discover your leg\u2019s on vacation.<\/p>\n

Each pound of flesh, a nest,
\nA home to a\u2019 planet\u2019s worth
\nOf tiny, vicious, hungry\u2026 things;
\nInvading aliens, in your flesh,
\nThey bite, and eat, and swallow,
\nAnd out they shit your pound of flesh.<\/p>\n

Infection was the Devil of my Time,
\nAnd Time our great adversary.
\nMy smock, my frock, my trousers, locks,
\nAll spatter-gored, a sign of my success.
\nI, a\u2019 demon of speed, red, blooded, proved
\nUpon the field of vicious, hungry bites.<\/p>\n

We manly men, we gloried in our gore,
\nWe boasted of incaridined coats.
\nBy butchery saved we dozens, though often still
\nE\u2019en our admired appetites, our flash
\nCould not redeem from He our Savior that
\nLast ten percent: the tithe He took from Me:<\/p>\n

Rob Liston, my prayer is Amputation,
\nGod gave me a marvelous grand Vocation,
\nYou lie down on your back,
\nAnd with snickety snack,
\nYou pray that I\u2019ve said my Novations.<\/p>\n

I smiled as they held him down, frothing.
\nTime Me, Gentlemen, Time Me<\/em>,
\nI cried with a West End wink,
\nAnd dove in to dine.
\nFast, Faster, fair enough to think
\nThat I\u2019d outdo myself, insatiable for slices.<\/p>\n

Time Me, Gentlemen, Time Me<\/em>,
\nA flurry of ferrum, but then I seized
\nThat green and fateful saw
\nThat sharp-toothed maw.<\/p>\n

He screamed, he writhed, I grinned
\nA barb\u2019rous grin: Scratch, Bite, Rip,
\nMy jaws of life bit into him,
\nTo break him, to save him,
\nPerhaps\u2026 to kill him.<\/p>\n

Rob Liston, my drug, she is Amputation.
\nAddicted? I\u2019ll make no Protestations.
\nYou\u2019re held down on your back,
\nAnd with snickety snack,
\nYou may die from my Ingestation.<\/p>\n

Oh, he is fighting, Oh he is roaring,
\nAnd so roars God,
\nAnd so roars Death,
\nBut so roar I,
\nMy metal jaws are stronger than them all.
\nI Scratch, Bite, Rip,
\nThey hold him down,
\nI Bite, I Rip,
\nThey hold him down,
\nI Bite, Bite, Bite,
\nThey hold, hold, hold,
\nI Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrip!!!!!<\/p>\n

Gouts! Of red Victory explode!
\nDangling Failure tumbles to a barrel
\nAnd Plop. Plup. Plip.
\n—-
\nPoor Richard\u2019s fingers fall upon the floor.
\nOld Doctor Desmond\u2019s fallen on the floor.
\nI bit his coat, not him, but tell his old Heart that.
\nOld coat, poor hand, sick leg;
\nI bit them all.<\/p>\n

A pound of flesh, a nest,
\nEach home to a\u2019 planet\u2019s worth
\nOf tiny, vicious, hungry\u2026 things;
\nInvading angels that hate we mortal men.
\nTheir holy light turns the stump to shit,
\nTheir holy love the hand to shit,
\nTheir holy song the heart to shit,
\nAnd my tithe\u2019s three-hundred percent.<\/p>\n

Rob Liston\u2026 Slice.<\/p>\n

\"snickety-snack\"

Living Room Vauntguardia, Oct 2016<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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