Suppose you screeve? or go cheap-jack?
Or fake the broads? or fig a nag?
Or thimble-rig? or knap a yack?
Or pitch a snide? or smash a rag?
Suppose you duff? or nose and lag?
Or get the straight, and land your pot?
How do you melt the multy swag?
Booze and the blowens cop the lot.
(From Francois Villon's “Straight Tip to All Cross Coves” as translated by William Ernest Henley)
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Can this be re-stated to invoke a Philosophy of Magic?
"To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." -Jacques Derrida
No comments:
Post a Comment