Father Unknown

The meritor of these verses Shall be a man entire Who has indulged in spending His appetite for fire,

Hot as the blazing center Of his domestic hearth, Has scattered himself asunder To the promiscuous earth,

Seeing the chaste combustion Man and his wife produce, Has rendered himself in question Past any safe excuse,

And shall not have for glory Sweet home in effigy, Nor legal kin embroidered On a meticulous tree,

But sprouts in the wrong garden Anomalous as flame, Giving his blood and gender With his unspoken name.