Sonnet: The History of Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico was created when the pumpkin on top of

The turtle burst and its teeming waters poured out

With all mankind and beastkind riding on the waves

Until the water drained leaving a tropical paradise.

Puerto Rico was stumbled on by lost vampires bearing

Crucifix in one hand, arquebus in the other, sucking

The veins of land and men, tossing the pulp into the

Compost heap which they used as the foundation for

Their fortifications and other vainglorious temples.

Puerto Rico was arrested just as it broke out of the

Spanish jail and, renamed a trusty, it was put in an

American cell. When the prisoner hollered, "Yankee, Go

Home," Puerto Rico was referred to the United Nations.

Puerto Rico, to get to paradise now, you have to ride blood.