The New Decameron - Momus

In a time of plague

We were young and gay

And while money reigned

Minorities were wiped out every day

But we had tailors, we were getting famous

With the patronage of William Burroughs

And also Kathy Acker

Our pens would save the day

Singing 'tirra lirra tirra lirra tirra lirra gabba gabba hey'

And our heroes were

Nightclub entrepreneurs

Our novellas were

Metaphors and deconstructions

Architects

Who blow up their own buildings

While Reagan and Thatcher reigned we got famous

Not all of us survived

As happens in time of plague

Singing 'tirra lirra tirra lirra tirra lirra gabba gabba hey'

In a gilded time

When death was king

A group of authors began to write a new Decameron

Whose elegance bordered on the Florentine

And when the 90s came

We were immune to plague

To every known strain

Then along came Kurt Cobain