Venerable Vandals Poem by John Sensele

Indifference ignores ignominy
Spread through a grapevine
That casts mud at a bimbo in a mini
Alleging the lass imbibes too much red wine

Fermented on a windowsill
Once or twice a year
In a kitchen whose rent bill
Kills shallow pockets as a tear

Drop crops ups and dopes hope
Stolen long ago
When hailstorms blew away a roof on the slope
Of Mount Kilimandjaro

Where pygmies, Hottentots and bushmen
Succeeded in scooping a new habitat
As hairy vandals and conmen
From Northern Europe grabbed land in a tit for tat.