…
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
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