Flying Beneath the Radar.


What range of ugliness invests my form:
Who am I, Childe Harold, Richard III?
I run the gamut in my mirror, from worm
To dashing Don, from gold to camel turd.
Trouble follows me if I am good
Or bad, so why resist those things I should.

My body settles now and then to firm
And cascades back to fat with scarce a word.
I am the air that passes through the tuba
Without an embouchure, an ancient scuba.
Spawn of Indolence, a mite of chance,
I run around like Punch without his pants.