Potato takes longer when not on –

Confuchiasaid…

…Adolf Hitler, Bob the Builder, Sting, and Fu Manchu

Etruscan verandas, Chessington zoo, trams and a Boy called Sue…

Meanwhileaway…

In the belly of the quintessential beast:

One mo! I must bare my feet, take off socks,

Step deftly into scalding, saline soup

Wherewithin…

Wild Dogmen, blood axed racketeers, them sort;

Merged into angry bellowing crash waves

Trading, pillaging, raping, and knitting.

Heel touches first through steaming steam dipping down.

I shiver, goose pimples bloom, tender soles

Softly settling into purple water…