April is National Poetry Month. In honor of the occasion, I sent our staff researcher to look through the family archives to find some works from earlier eras that might add some perspective for today. As it happens, it seems we have another writer on the family tree from centuries back, and she came across a short work from Eastern Europe during the late Middle Ages that was written at the time of the Plague when trolls, faerie queens,wizards, witches and ogres were part of the culture, as people desperately looked to the spirit world for answers and tales to believe in. The work by a great-great-many greats cousin, poet Nicholas Bissendorf seems to be appropriate.
I've since found other of his poetry in my personal records that have gathered dust over the centuries and were filed under the heading of "Folderol." It seems that great-many greats cousin Nicholas tended to offend many people with his poetry. Not for what he wrote, but because he kept going up to strangers asking if he could read his latest work to them, and did so, even when they said, "No," which was the usual response. "A Plague on Some of Your Houses" Nicholas Bissenderf, 1351 A demon named Drumpf made a visit, Some scared villagers cried, “Should we kiss it???” It was evil as coal Which would mean sell their soul. But they did and so all were complicit. They soon formed a cult of the brashest. The first to join up were the rashest. They built Drumpf a throne. Wouldn't think on their own. When the Plague came, by then they were fascist. The demon was quite the worst beast. What was good for the land, it liked least. It brought a big box in Of tankards of toxin. The cult soon was clean and deceased. As cures go, it was a bit drastic. Town outrage was quick and fantastic: "They were thick in the head -- But they shouldn't be dead!!" Drumpf answered, "I was being sarcastic."
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