*Kubla Khan ��â��â¬Å a fragment of a fragment
Topic: Comedy
* apologies to S.T.Colleridge
(1987. becuase prior to this I didn't like the original, so I thought to parody it.)
In Reservoir did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure dome deliver
Where Darabin, the muddy creak ran
By tunnels made by man
down to the Yarra River.
So twice five 'yards1 of fractured ground
With sheds and fences somewhere around:
And there were gardns limp and rum,
Where blossomed a few disesiduous trees;
Antd there were weeks and a baby plum,
Shading plots of beans and peas.
But oh! that shallow romancesless gully which slanted
Down the scrochéd hill across a blackened cover!
A savage place! as unholy and bewitched
As eer beneath a waxing moon was haunted
By a girl whispering for her truent-lover!
1. 'yards = backyards, land behind a house encircled by a fence indicating it belongs to the house.