Peter Porter "Untitled"

Poniżej wiersz, jaki znalazł się na stronie Vallum Magazine. Autor - Peter Porter - bliżej nieznany. UNTITLED After Bartolome Bermejo's Saint Michael Triumphant Over The Devil With The Donor Antonio Juan Theology's Hell is spoiled by rhyme - Let's be spontaneous this time, Help the Devil up off his back, Make him the Joker of the Pack And set that donor on to pay Evil's pension and delay The hideous Christian triumph - Sword Making Word rhyme with Accord. This toothy Satan has two tits (Not breasts but iron artefacts) Whose eye-ball nipples blink at sin And all the lovely worms within While God and his pale Myrmidons Drill Virgins in their Uniforms, The shocktroops of the Interface Of pissing's and of shitting's place What did Despair do when a Christ Declared no creature was despised, That He and Dad had love for all And no-one was outside the Wall? It smiled and waited until Mankid Becoming so much more refined, Elected Emptiness the Devil Screened off in some white Hospital.

Peter Porter was born in Brisbane, Australia in 1929 and emigrated to London in 1951. His first collection, Once Bitten, Twice Bitten, was published in 1961 by Scorpion Press. In his prolific career, he has been awarded the 1990 Gold Medal for Australian Literature and the 2002 Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry amongst others. His most recent collection is Afterburner (Picador, 2004).