Downstairs out in
the muck yard for
sun and goose bumps.
In for scrambled eggs,
extortionate salmon,
and putrid sachet sauce,
pub rockers on the box
awake memories of migraines.
The rugby marathon starts below,
Seek sanctuary. ..
A Flower Tower.
Here Mandy Toxic nasalises,
clacks corset dry chortles,
bad urbane gags tickle
jodral bankers, rugby refugees,
the happy dead.
Friday nights propose
Saturday’s doze.
Do-da-do-da-day…
at wadis elands
sip and natter,
hippos chew over
schedules and spreadsheets,
a baboon breaks cover
to bag a lax flamingo…
The sleepy papergirl wends
deftly shutting gates behind her,
delivers her wares:
vaporises,
sun beats flush soft
surges on verges…
more vainglorious burblings:
chattering classes
do not pay to rent
my ears with plummy guff,
hoarse hacks heckle, and snooties
snotter and guffaw.
True Sloth don’t rise.
Nine bleeps.
The leather hunters make bone soup,
dowse piss on the curing hides.
Red Lorry due at ten
Yellow lorry twelve