Sonnet: “He called himself Blatchford Sarnemington…” (by Mitch Sisskind)

He called himself Blatchford
Sarnemington

That night they all ate pork
rinds. Name from

‘The Scandal Detectives,’
Fitzgerald story

From Minnesota days. Yearning, yearning,

None better than Scott put yearning
on a page

So he called himself Blatchford
Sarnemington

That night they all ate pork
rinds. See, he was

So frustrated craving the attention
of Valkyria

As she called herself, young
Cuban fem

Going to Northwestern. Later
they married

But by then he called himself
Lou Belmont,

$$$ was the object of
desire, nay pussy,

Nay pork rinds, nay progress
by any means,

And he read Scott’s last letter,
to the IRS.