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Browning, Robert
Browning a poem by Usha Kishore
His dramatic monologues eulogising homicidal
psychopaths, who strangle innocent young women
with their own blonde hair and then prize open their
still blue eyes; his tyrant aristocrats, who smother
their wives’ smiles with contract killers and flaunt
exquisite designer portraits of their angelic victims.
His sensual ascetics, who order elaborate tombs,
encrusted with lapis lazuli, sculptured with libidinous
Pan twitching some bewildered nymph’s garments;
his amorous monks, who paint Christ crowning the
Madonna, drink Chianti wine and chase after sportive
ladies in untimely hours, singing bawdy stornelli;
his Renaissance painters senza errori, unrequited in
love, lost and forlorn. Zooks! There’s the grey beginning!
His weird pipers who combat demon rats and
monstrous broods of vampyre bats and then take
off with unsuspecting children; his voyeuristic
women, who poison their love rivals with