Jane Austen(1775-1817)

That terrible beast Jane

and her family of priests who performed no duties

and evangelists of the empire in naval uniforms,

cricketeers and spinsters galore,

their faces venom in old drawings, paintings and photographs,

those drones who knew their place

and the place of everyone 'below' them

and the place of everyone 'above' them.

They would have made marvelous servants

instead of petty masters,

and Jane a perfect maid

and then,

instead of just being an old maid

writing novel after novel about charming suitors,

some lord of manor

could have begetted an illegitimate child or twelve for her

like the lords of manors did back then.

Oh well, the upper middle-class gentry

hanging by its finger-tips from the entrance to the upper-class

had its chronicler in her,

that awful miss Jane.

30.05.2016