An Immodest

   Georgian Mansion

 

 

Montpellier House, 165 King’s Road, Reading

 

 

Do people ever think of Rimbaud as

A Georgian or Victorian?  Well, no,

But turning poetry to razzmatazz

Occurred substantially in London, though

In Reading, Berkshire, too, so why not call

His jumped up, jazzy psychotropic verse

Victorian or Georgian since its squall

Comes as from crippled saxophones.  His terse

Rejection of the old was written out

In Georgian buildings and Victorian

Years.  He created with his inky clout

More destruction than Oscar’s Dorian

And caused an architecture (in wild lines

That followed) of freakish, feral designs.