Sonnet: I Don't Want To Set the World on Fire

Ghoul in the Fireball
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Sonnet: I Don't Want To Set the World on Fire

Maybe Prometheus had it coming

for his mad presumption, handing out fire

to untested twerps, and Zeus, left bumming

at such hubris, thought a necklacing tire

would be apropos, like Bob Dylan's Wheel� "�

down Rolling Thunder Road, but went with debt

bonds, and Bald Eagle gin making it as real

as cirrhosis of the liver can get.

See, says Z, to our jaundiced hero,

the mad f*ckers have set the world aflame

and reduced infinity to zero,

and you, you, Promiscuous, are to blame.

All because you were passing out matches

to gene-pool pyros at coffee klatches.