…

scatter graphs ‘n’ happenstance
havoc as the badgers dance

cattle prods ‘n’ cotton socks
morris men in floral frocks

mental notes ‘n’ floating ghosts
as the rubber chicken roasts

morning calls ‘n’ even falls
when the then is tennis balls

rackets whack ‘n’ spinsters spin
in the endings of begin

paper planes ‘n’ avenues
loosened shrews ‘n’ screws in shoes

bumblebees ‘n’ bailing twine
once upon a swan of mine

sods below ‘n’ odd above
wronging songs for you – my love

…

( author notes )

for future reference

this poem was written during

the great unsafe concrete scare

of 2023

…