Drabble: Stevens' Scandal in Belgravia

[sorrel_forbes]

Title: Stevens' Scandal in Belgravia
Author: sorrel_forbes
Characters: Irene, Sherlock
Summary: A Scandal in Belgravia, as told by Wallace Stevens
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Word Count: 100
Author's Note: As I'm inclined to be shy about free verse, this small confection has been beta read, gamma read and delta read by dulcemia. Many thanks! Any remaining oddities are all my own.

Enter the ring with whips in hand
To make them beg, should they not jump through hoops.
In glittering, gaudy gowns or none,
Perform with hard bright smile and wary wits
A trick: extract a rabbit from a smartphone
Locked with a difficult problem.
Let The Woman affix her beam;
Agape’s no advantage, no dream

Put in the fridge a head,
And then a bundle of toes.
Frustrate the state, too clever
At Christmas, utter unkind words;
Scrape tender inside parts too well
Faulty gifts unwrapped, see hearts swell.
Let be be beloved not seem
Agape; an advantage: to dream

Tennyson's Study in Pink
Lear's Blind Banker
Carroll's Great Game

Stevens' Scandal in Belgravia
Blake's HOUND of Baskerville
Lennon's Reichenbach Trip

Yeats' Empty Hearse