Artist Unknown
“Yeah, I Might Have Overdone It With the Fertilizer On My Portabello Mushrooms This Year,” 1799
Watercolor on paper
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/// On Mont Blanc’s Mer de Glace as he crossed,
Victor spied a hulk covered in frost.
‘Twas the creature he’d made
from dead bodies he’d flayed.
(Then they talked about Paradise Lost.)
/// And the monster asked, “Why give me life
to be lonely, with no friend or wife?”
“You must build me a bride
made of beauties who’ve died
or your future with pain will be rife!”
/// Frankenstein took his creature’s advice,
then reneged. Victor’s bride paid the price.
At this sad story’s end,
without love, bride or friend,
they will both end up back on thin ice.
/// At the foot of the Pasterze glacier,
which two men have been sent to survey. Sure,
the ice floe’s retreated,
and nearly completed
the old ecosystem’s erasure.
/// If you’ve ever seen glacier-blue ice,
it’s a hue that can soothe and entice.
When no glaciers are nigh,
will what falls from the sky
when a jet vents its toilets suffice?