A freckled and frivolous cake there was <br /> That sailed upon a pointless sea, <br />Or any lugubrious lake there was <br /> In a manner emphatic and free. <br />How jointlessly, and how jointlessly <br /> The frivolous cake sailed by <br />On the waves of the ocean that pointlessly <br /> Threw fish to the lilac sky. <br /> <br />Oh, plenty and plenty of hake there was <br /> Of a glory beyond compare, <br />And every conceivable make there was <br /> Was tossed through the lilac air. <br /> <br />Up the smooth billows and over the crests <br /> Of the cumbersome combers flew <br />The frivolous cake with a knife in the wake <br /> Of herself and her curranty crew. <br />Like a swordfish grim it would bounce and skim <br /> (This dinner knife fierce and blue) , <br />And the frivolous cake was filled to the brim <br /> With the fun of her curranty crew. <br /> <br />Oh, plenty and plenty of hake there was <br /> Of a glory beyond compare - <br />And every conceivable make there was <br /> Was tossed through the lilac air. <br /> <br />Around the shores of the Elegant Isles <br /> Where the cat-fish bask and purr <br />And lick their paws with adhesive smiles <br /> And wriggle their fins of fur, <br />They fly and fly 'neath the lilac sky - <br /> The frivolous cake, and the knife <br />Who winketh his glamorous indigo eye <br /> In the wake of his future wife. <br /> <br />The crumbs blow free down the pointless sea <br /> To the beat of a cakey heart <br />And the sensitive steel of the knife can feel <br /> That love is a race apart <br />In the speed of the lingering light are blown <br /> The crumbs to the hake above, <br />And the tropical air vibrates to the drone <br /> Of a cake in the throes of love.<br /><br />Mervyn Peake<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-frivolous-cake/
