After the gold rush

Klondyke was not a name which suited him greatly

For one thing its brassiness
was at odds with his weak grin
and ineffectual chin

It reeked of unbridled avarice
and hotspur desperados sporting
five o'clock shadows at nine in the morning
while he radiated good grace amd the
reassuring scent of home-made pomade

Yet he insisted that everyone
except his mother and his
long-time "personal trainer"
call him Klondyke

Not Mister Klondyke
or Klondyke Saab
just Klondyke or rather
Klon Dyke

Klon from the obscure Klingon dialect
of Xrogtzj in which it means
Sir or Lord or Noble one
and Dyke from undisputed Galaxy
gilli-dunda champ
Fragglespune van Dyke of
Greater Mandria which is
on the outskirts of the
Gamma Quadrant
a short flight across
from the expirating nebula of Az
where not Shaz nor Waz
ever featured heavily on the
telebox menu but Paris Hilton's
Simple Life was rated
even higher than
The Adventures Of
Princess Slytherine And Her
Hairy Escapades Alongside The
Hairless Beast of Betelgeuse Seven
- a weekly intergalactic tag-team
mud-wrestling extravaganza
produced broadly along the lines
of Disaster Area's infamous
gigawatt concerts like
the one they broadcast
across the vast Rudlit Desert on
the dry red planet of Kakrafoon

(minos - march 2007)