lobelia siphilitica

they were aliens
who had turned
in the moment of his
greatest agony
alphonse daudet
into a pair of pale blue
silk slippers
which were then given
to henri de toulouse-lautrec
in the moment
of his greatest torment
and while this seems quixotic
to 'save' one man
and 'chide' another
the aliens were in fact
enacting a precise
mathematical equation
which would be recorded later
in the pale blue coade stone dome
of a miniature neo-classical residence
whose occupant was known as
les monducare
who was also an alien
noted among his own kind
as a great collector of worms
and a consummate mingerer