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BlowgunA Blowgun is a simple weapon that usually consists of a simple small tube of which the wielder blows into one opening which fires a light projectile (usually called a Blowdart) out the other.Often for maximum effectiveness, the projective is envenomed with a poison. Many cultures have used this weapon, but various indigenous rain forest tribes in South America are the best known wielders.
Beneath the glacial Crag or fronded Stalk,
And drowns my Spirits in a Sea of Talk.
LVI
The Noun and Verb he scatters without End
Ah, fumid Pipe, I thank you hour.html">hour by hour
Than lodgment in that Great Menagerie
And Social Lions growl above their Tea.
LVIII
The Tea, that in the magic of its Flow
To gabble garbled Garrulousness ere
Where last week's Lion had his little Boom
And let them brew another Tea - for whom?
LX
They say the Lion and the Ladies keep
Now Minor Poets label new Cigars
Who to your Orgies bid the Muses Nine,
Whose name is Nicotine, for she is mine!
LXII
Peace to the Pipe, that silent Infidel,
How many Kisses has he seen me Give,
When Zamperina kissed her maiden Kiss,
"Oh, how can you respect me after This?"
LXIV
Another Time, all dalliant and slow,
And at the Second Kiss she only said,
Again she showed no seeming to abhor,
Was, "Is This all you Come to See me For?"
LXVI
But One there is more sage in that Caress,
But when I tip the Osculative Brim
If her Artistic Spirit wakes and stirs,
Engagements where I won my Brazen Spurs.
LXVIII
A Microbe lingers in a Kiss, you say?
Rather than in the Cup and Telephone
Endures an Age and flickers in a Puff,
Enough - of Kisses can there be Enough?
LXX
What, then, of Him in dizzy Heights profound
Alas! who goes ballooning to the Stars
Except D E F G H I it be,
And then S T U V W X Y Z.
LXXII
A Solon ponders till his Years are great
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