…

twelve leaf blowers droning

eleven headless horsemen

ten conkers falling

nine poets mincing

eight menopausal maidens

seven shepherds lost in fog

six pumpkins souping

five guy fawkes

four bangers scaring

three tupped ewes

two skeins of geese

& a pixie on a toadstool

( amen )

…

…

see the botling buggers

poles thrusting upward

harder than smoke

screwing the blue

with twelve golden stars

or yellow instead

slava war-mongers

or oh so bravely now

around the rainbow’s rim

or up the unions jacksy

because some jug-eared nonce

or someplace in the desert

that’s none of their beeswax

might tickle their software

hashtag that

– fucking flag shaggers

…

…

dream like a yesterday

      daze of the week

we become eye

      starfish & spillage

      down in the brown creek

– perhaps a campanologist?

      strike while the iron

is hotter than a dwarf

all becomes drums

      paradiddles piddle

this is the song

      of a strawberry milksop

      shaking like a parcel

ticking ’til the boom

      blooming in late may

rogered by august

so the gibbons glib

      am-dram, thank you man

spoonerisms rule

      so we don’t five a guck

      interference here

cackles on the radio

      vindaloo in lieu

snap, crackle & poppadom

avalon me arse

      aardvarks love a scrap

books on every shelf

      dusted like the done

      flaming fat ladies

burn like pudding lane

      bollocks on the brain

but not a swan in sight

…

…

the george & dragon snap

the tinker’s nipple

the albino snark

the horny akela

the king’s hedgehog

the queen’s pidgin english

the herring red lion

the black horsefly

the onbudsman’s ankles

the chest feeder’s bollocks

the travellers wrestle

the phantom arms

the dog rose & crown

the park keeper’s anus

the rocking horse & hellhounds

the dude of wellington

the dupe of york

the green man … alishi

the costerman’s bum fluff

the do my fucking head inn

…

~

a twenty p piece

a golden pheasant’s feather

& the washing up

…