Poetry

Pantoum of the Opera

Eddie Gibbons

Is this one Wagner’s Ring?

There’s a cycle in it somewhere.

We’ll know the show is over

when the Fat Lady sings.

 

There’s a cycle in it somewhere,

and the Nibelungen Ring.

When the Fat Lady sings

we’ll drive to Gotterdammerung

 

down the Nibelungen ring road.

In a Norbert Dentressangle truck

we’ll drive to Gotterdammerung.

Valkyries check their Vodafones

 

in a Norbert Dentressangle truck.

We’ll know the show is over when

Valkyries check their Vodafones:

is this tone Wagner’s ring?