Extended Eulogy For Hussein Alasdair McGaw, 16 (Obsequies)

‘Con le ginocchia della inchine mente’
- in Giacomo’s preface, this pious pearl from Petrarch
Huss had underlined with 3miletweetiepie yellowranium
fluorescentmarker. And it is how he was, how he was whathewas,
how he wentaboutit, how he went -  yes, with dervish peggers
like Cyllenius’ wingimajigs, but ‘with the knees of the mind bent’.
Yes, Huss stood for that, but epitaphs are too tackedonto
motionless men to mean him, and obituarising is just a pasttime.

Indeed, my mouth mustn’t marvel
with glorifying garble, howevermuch munificence
this humblest immortal evinced, nomatterhow his
nomadic tentacles sharedout his lighttouch’s clout.
So my love must be limited lioniser, lest
any overhearing heroholed strangers nod, nonethewiser
about his humility’s magnificence - unassuming, unpresumptious,
too hard to earn to be shortchanged by some rep I heap.
Trumpetsoffuss? Surplus, I needn’t whistle witness
even effortlessly once, since the pact between his gob and conduct
courted no doubt that Huss was halal whereitcounts: his halal was ahimsa.