Clasp the Armoured Molecule

Clasp the armoured molecule
To your calculated wire.
Masticate a sug’ry tendon
And set your house on fire.

Confuse your spouse with crabmeat;
Bewitch the day with air.
Liken pigmeat to a pansy
And justice to a pear.

I rue the night when Uncle died
From salmon in his sleep.
They crept along the basting-board
And heard his dream-mouth weep.

Five times they hinged the pepper-mill
With fixin’s from the dew.
They rolled him to the manor born
Where they stewed a pretty stew.

His eyes were all a-parsly
When from them he did gape;
He chewed the fat of Christendom
And kissed its scrawny nape.

The fish were all a-tumble—
Like scrabble in a gourd.
They mixed the dew with fixtures
Stolen from a lord.

Clasp the armoured molecule
To your calculated wire.
Masticate a sug’ry tendon
And set your house on fire.