X is for Xerxes

is for Xerxes

Xerxes and arses

The one and only for this letter

is Xerxes, and no-one else better!

Because he was a great king

though that could mean anything

from sex-crazed jerk to kick-ass go-getter.

But he was portrayed in books after

as cruel, inept, with scorn and laughter;

but then history depicts

based on whose arse was kicked
and whose boot was involved, nothing’s dafter.

What can I say about X? That it is the most Xtreme letter is obvious. The only other name I know that begins with X is Xavier.  And the only Xavier I know of is the Jesuit saint who went to India and founded schools and stuff all over the place.  Not Xactly a life to induce wild laughter or anything, not a limericky type of life at all.  At least Buddha had the sense to sport a distinctive hairstyle!

Maybe there are other names and characters- Xiu, and Xin, and Xu.  But my knowledge of China is shaky and knock-kneed. Limited to the cuisine passed off as Chinese by the residents of China Town in my hometown Kolkata. Which has been there for nearly two hundred years of the three hundred odd years Kolkata has been in Xistence.  They are more Bengali than Chinese, if you ask me. At least their food is nothing like what’s available in Chinese restaurants in Singapore. East is East, and West is West, and in this case, don’t have the least intention of meeting.  The Chinese in Kolkata speak fluent Bengali and probably write Mandarin in the Bengali script, since their own alphabet is so Xcruciatingly compleX.

Tell me, who’s your X? 

Posted for the A-Z Challenge 2016