By Edmondia Dantes

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Part II

The earl has gone completely loony
Breakfast's going to be a hooey
Searching for trousers and hissing at cats
(Lovely imagery, thank you for that)
Steerpike's hammock has gone bye-bye
But he's under the table - the boy's not shy
Strange jiggly pudding and an oscillating cherry
All things considered, Steerpike's gotten quite merry
Flay's been banished - come night he'll be gone
And Swelter'll soon decorate all the lawn
Till they drag 'im up to the Tower of Flints
And the next part's ucky - Sepulchrave bits
Steerpike laughs diabolically
As Flay wanders off - bye-bye, tee hee!
Search for the earl - where the hell is he?
Steerpike: "Why are you asking me?"
S gets hired by Barquentine
Something he'll regret, in time.
(Sourdust? Well, he got clipped
They couldn't fit him in the script
Pity, for that's my favorite part -
what do you mean go on, you silly tart?)
So we'll earl little Titus, the babe-in-arms
(Though one seeks hard to find his charms)
And by the shores of Gormenghast Lake
Does our dear Steerpike a quick swim take
To flirt with the ladies, tall and fair
Possessed of the most ungainly hair
The twins run off, duly impressed
And Fuchsia's delighted by the sight of his chest
That lovely sight, magnetic, it's true...
Oh Fuchsia, how dearly I wish I were you!
The flirting is done, and the twins still need scaring
Running through the halls is Steerpike, uncaring
Of just who he scares with his freaky laugh
As long as the twins are, that's all that he asks
Earling and earling and earling is through
Little children? In Gormenghast, they number two.

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