Is Suffering Not Suffering?
Is suffering not suffering if bathetic?
If one of them, though adult, asks his mum
To rescue him, is that so pathetic
That it’s not agony? He goes to slum
Around a foreign city with his mate
(In every sense) but gets so drunk and fucked
By love and booze they might as well be hate.
He loses all control and throbs, self-schmucked,
In pain so total, like the London fog
Mixed through with absinthe poison, that he sobs
Out, “Mummy, come and save me from the frog
Who didn’t turn into my prince!” She robs
His battered manhood with her salvation.
She lessens pain, providing castration.