Sonnet: "He called himself Blatchford Sarnemington..." (by Mitch Sisskind)

He called himself Blatchford Sarnemington

That night they all ate pork rinds. Name from

‘The Scandal Detectives,’ Fitzgerald story

From Minnesota days. Yearning, yearning,

None better than Scott put yearning on a page

So he called himself Blatchford Sarnemington

That night they all ate pork rinds. See, he was

So frustrated craving the attention of Valkyria

As she called herself, young Cuban fem

Going to Northwestern. Later they married

But by then he called himself Lou Belmont,

$$$ was the object of desire, nay pussy,

Nay pork rinds, nay progress by any means,

And he read Scott’s last letter, to the IRS.

Comments

[DL]

Then he joined the Marines. Meat you cook is good, he told her, despite the kid slobbering. He had changed his name once before, only that time it was from Katzinsky to Kaminsky. It was the dawn of an old day. Nay pork rinds. Only one way now to get elected. Get erected. Haw!