Medusa and The Cyborg Octopus: A Poem

Medusa And The Cyborg Octopus


In his London lab
as he bandaged his scab
Dr. Cadbury Rocher had heard of the death of a friend
It seemed that Rome's Dr. Poseidon Prometheus had met his end
or so the Italian tabloids claimed
of his death no one blamed
He just simply disappeared
but in Rome no one cheered
or for that matter even cried
over the fact he may have died.
For the Romans by nature are an apathetic lot
and they're like this without even smoking pot.


Dr. Poseidon Prometheus had gone down to his lab on the Isle of Capri
there by the shores of the Tyrrhenian Sea
over a spot where Emperor Tiberius once practiced sodomy
His departing words, from a big bottle I'll unleash the genie.


And then he was never heard from again
though truth be told, tentacles were coming from his rear end.
A large bottle with a ship inside was found floating near a nearby shore
and a brave Capri fisherman said, I'll open this door.



He uncorked the top off the bottle
and found himself in a deadly throttle
for a Kraken had emerged from inside the ship
and with a hooked tentacle pierced the fisherman's lip.


(For more on the origins of this Cyborg Octopus Kraken, please read


https://draculvanhelsing.wordpress.com/2015/06/18/the-cyborg-octopus-a-poem/


)


Then the talking cyborg octopus Kraken
found the hot Capri sun a trifle bakin'
and so he headed deeper out to sea
where cool ocean breeze caressed him tenderly.


O Isle of Capri!
So much history!
Ancient and modern!
Much is forgotten!


Napoleon conquered you in September 1806
But the British played an oceanic game of pick-up sticks
They ousted the French from you the following May
and no replaced non as an expression for nay!


The French reconquered Capri in 1808
and Napoleon's ego became insufferably great
They remained there until 1815 when Napoleon met his Waterloo
and Bonaparte rule of Europe was finally through.



So on that Capri day there went out to sea
on a day that will be remembered in future history
the Kraken who called himself Napoleon the Sixth
a Kraken who had once been confined to the mists of myth.


Meanwhile Dr. Cadbury Rocher had in his lab Medusa's body and head
A long lab table was now the lamented ex-Gorgon's bed
She had been retrieved from her burial place  by a metallic robot
who answered to the long forgotten Biblical name of Tobit
for you see robots do not turn to stone
plus they have a built-in smart phone
so Tobit found Medusa and brought her here to Dr. Rocher's London lab
calling the doctor who left the restaurant leaving Renfield with the tab.


Rocher called in his robot he called Edward Scissorhands
named after the Johnny Depp character with scissors for hands
The robotic barber cut Medusa's hair of snakes
plus removed from her scalp a few dandruff flakes

He added to the scalp Rocher's Instant Hair Growth Formula
whose sale was scheduled for marketing in California
And lovely flowing red lockets appeared
Her body was reattached to her head once feared.


He then brought in a fashion designer from House of Chanel
because he thought Medusa should give up clothing from Hell
And the Chanel designer fitted her with a Phoenician purple dress
A Vidal Sassoon stylist made sure her hair wasn't a mess.


And thus a new Medusa was born
one whose heart was no longer forlorn
For she was now a great raving beauty
no longer a feminazi whose face resembled her booty.


And then Rocher sailed the red haired slit skirted purple dress fair Medusa to Normandy's shore
which was the start of Der Fuhrer Hitler's downfall Churchill had swore.


And as the lovely Medusa stood there on the beach
she soon found hooked tentacles within her reach
but no harm would come to her
for the Kraken adored her
He had found true love at last
too bad his many arms had hooks of brass.


And so on this Nativity of Saint John The Baptist
Greek myth and Napoleon's legacy met and kissed
for the Corsican name Napoleon
was Italian equivalent of Greek Apollyon
His name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon
infinitely more powerful than the genie of Aladdin.


-A narrative poem
 and vampire novel
 chapter
 written by Christopher
 Wednesday June 24th
 2015.


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