PERSEPHONE OF SEVILLE

A Tail Worth Telling

[Tongue-in-Cheek]

By izzy ess of meaningless

Persephone Seville arrived a day

Too late, in Quito, Ecuador, to have

Participated in the Mardi Gras

Parade in which the marchers took their clothes

Completely off to demonstrate their happiness

At having lived another year.

Some revelers, the year before had started

Fires and riots and turned over cars

And busses, vowing that they would prevent

The next year’s celebration by their terrorizing

Acts of murder, mayhem and

And fires, producing grand reduction of

The town to rubble.  Luckily, the citizens

Combined their efforts and they fought

The criminals and chased them out of town

In tarred and feathered outer clothes.  This year’s

Parade was celebration of the love

That everyone held dear for Quito, eh?

Persephone got naked anyway

And was applauded by the populace,

Who followed suit in droves, despite the fact

That Wednesday was the start of Lent, a day

That usually was serious.  The Quito

City Council voted Percy as

A PERSON EXTRAORDINARY and

And named the day, THE PERCY’S HOLIDAY!

Each year in Quito everyone will celebrate

By walking naked in the streets when Lent

Begins.  It makes the chore of dieting,

Or skipping chocolate, more appetizing.

One hopes that PERCY’S HOLIDAY becomes

More Universal and it spreads to all

Of South and North America and Europe,

Asia, Africa, Australia and

Antarctica, although it would be cold

In Old, ice-cold Antarctica, undressed

And altogether nude.  Oh, well.  It was

A thought, perhaps not practical for all.

Suffice to say, in Mandalay, it is

A Ball!  And, Lent will never be the same.

To pass this up would surely be a shame.

THE END

© izzy sommers, md

Welland, Canada

June 27, 2013