Make Mine A Double
1. I am a rock,
I am an islamabad.
2. I am a Caesar saladin:
veni, vici, video.
3. I am an announcer
just muezzin around.
4. I am appearing nightly
on Kabul television.
5. I am a stalking-horse
ridden by Donald Rumsfeld.
6. I am a scot-free
camel laird.
7. I am a son of the desert,
a Laurel and Hardy perennial.
8. I am a pillar of salt:
Taliban upon Cerebos.
9. I am a lost harpsichord,
a Scarlatti Pimpernel.
10. I am a sheik,
a hippy hippy sheik.
[November 2001]