Yes, I am a biped, modern Macavity:
An ignominious centre of macabre and guilt,
A tautology for despicable depravity,
Oh! On my filthy back all illegal towers are built!
No human law is strong enough for me to capture,
I am born to disobey, snatch, rob, sin and torture!
With utmost care and sincerity, all the offensive buds I tend and nurture,
Yes, my insensitivity hides are too tough for the Conscience bullet to puncture!
I can effortlessly divert, distort, deteriorate and dominate the rest,
I can elusively inject, infect, pervert, run away and infest!
I can breach all the moral norms, yet prove myself innocent and best,
I can digest all the crimes to win, by hook or by crook, my mundane life's Test!
But, alas, I can hardly deceive and dodge the unblinking eyes of Time,
He is ever vigilant and never partial to spare me for my unforgivable Crime!
N.B: Sources, Wikipedia
Macavity is a fictional character who is described in a poem in Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, by T. S. Eliot. He also appears in Cats, the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical.
Etymology of the name
The name Macavity is a pun by T. S. Eliot, on the names of several characters from other works of literature : Macheath, a supervillain who appears both in John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, its sequel Polly and roughly 200 years later as Mack the Knife[citation needed] in The Threepenny Opera written by Bertolt Brechtand Kurt Weill in 1928, macuahuitl, the Aztec obsidian sword,[citation needed] and Moriarty, the surname of a supervillain-scientist from the Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle[1]. Lastly, the word 'cavity' implies a hole or void or absence of something, and he is described in the poem as being "not there" at the time or location of any crime.
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