jam (at a glance)



Strawberry's for tourists 

& the yawningly boring,

Damson's handsome

& Plum makes us glum,

Greengage beckons seachange

& Chilli burns y' bum.





Raspberry?

Exactly

if it's a Bakewell Tart it has to be,

Rhubarb 

well that's an extra's script

& Blackcurrant's dark-Satanic-shit.





But delicious, sublime & great,

Apricot binds

a Battenberg Cake,

Traffic's too slow

to merit a mention

plus Toe's for scent & show

NOT human ingestion

...





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