An Immodest
Georgian Mansion
Montpellier House, 165 King’s Road, Reading
Do people ever think of Rimbaud as
A Georgian or Victorian? Well, no,
But turning poetry to razzmatazz
Occurred substantially in London, though
In Reading, Berkshire, too, so why not call
His jumped up, jazzy psychotropic verse
Victorian or Georgian since its squall
Comes as from crippled saxophones. His terse
Rejection of the old was written out
In Georgian buildings and Victorian
Years. He created with his inky clout
More destruction than Oscar’s Dorian
And caused an architecture (in wild lines
That followed) of freakish, feral designs.