Beauty and Beast /Bed and Breakfast /Bastard and Bard

1.

What, then, is an emperor?

She threw the question back and she was wrong.

Everywhere are rotten apples!

Saying that, he pulled up his pants,
and was simply gone.

2.

What would you have me do?

She called the question
and waited for an answer to come.

Where I look, open kegs and candles.
I do not belong.

He gazed like a dog into space
and lolled out his tongue.

3.

Why did you not entreat me?

She called her question
and spoke like a queen to the mirror.

There is only one word that could answer
and he found none here.

He threw down Roget's Thesaurus
and left the room.

4.

Beauty, I fear, is short. It was not a question.

Art is long was, of course, his reply.

And time is feathered, I hear.
Like a bird it flies.

But whether we fuck is the question.
Thus, did he reply.

5.

Not everyone who loves has worn my ring.

Perhaps, but I've been thinking
and do not care.

And love, you think, is enough?

I only know that beauty and love of beauty
are everywhere.

6.

So now, let my poor mind go. I need my sleep.

Then may you sleep and the wool of your blanket
be a comfort.

You are like a sheep
that cares only and always for itself.

And you are stricken Because I won’t say I love you.

7.

Go to hell.
Life is a lot more than tits and a pretty face.

Ah yes, but the light of heaven is not disgraced,
if I roll over and spurn you.

There is not a shred of decency about you.

And the very air is shuddering at the wrong that you do.

8.

And so sweet Shakespeare, when you hear,
take a softer tone

to those like us who come after
and who live alone,
unable in life to keep up.

We fill the cup and drain it
and, then, we piss.

What we say to girls is less helpful than a goodbye kiss.