Grimbeau

Scroodles

Humpfrey

The Fool

Bogart rides dumb waiter to Casablanca.

Greenstreet in fez and white suite whips flies dead.

We whisper secrets in the Fool & Bladder

The spies, Leech & Lamprey, eavesdrop us.

Landlord Russ Catt, Suffolk stone-licking champeen,

claims Henry the First once choked on this spot

in fourteen-fifty-three. Throbbing bulbous

bloodshot eyes are persuasive. Once he licked one

thousand stones in just one hour. Languid lipped,

pueumatic limbed, a gurgle ball of gungey

frogspawn in his throat. We departed when we

had heard him out feeling modestly pissed.

Juneday Twenty: Gloam

The lolling lion

A slow heavy fast night of clammy claw

CS Lewis wakes up the coffee hour

Good banks for the rich: bad banks for the poor.

Loose head props a sea of waxy flowers

Lolling on the blue, crucible altar;

Swimming the foamback Bosphorous caprice

Carpetted riviera road floor.

Catch the earlybird bullet to Nice!

Consideration: transportation is

Unavailable at this holy hour

Also calculate the lonely crowds of rose

That spend so much time wallflowering

Patiently awaiting a tender pruning.