ice cream soup

He told a story never told
With melon goats and jungle bears
Of larceners and alpine gold
You should've heard the sight

A trafficker in oyster lead
Of honest height and double-hat
Would mix a glass of Turkish Thread
And Middle-Of-The-Night

In Needle Haystack Lion's Paw
The town of nearly seven towns
Just north of Tallfist, Iowa
A cactus fought a kite

In caravans of ampersands
A surgeon on the runaway
Is slapping knees across his hands
To cure an apple blight

The ghost of Captain Shakes-The-Moon
Survivor of the Nickel Wars
Had holed up in a sawdust dune
With Persian Satterwhite

Aboard the six to Cornglass Lake
A saboteur was jumping off
He'd glued the hinge and cut the brake
And bound the enginewright

Archduchess climbed the minaret
And claimed the sun had eyes to spare
While all the men sang Bassinet
And Muddy Meadow Bright

The never-told tale wasn't penned
No-one could find a pad or coal
It took a week to comprehend
And five months to recite