Chet Baker goes east
Chin Ho enters the busy atrium,
kismet expectant.
Rhoda can't help eyeing
the boy's artful kabaya.
Even Robert's charmed.
How entrancing, the boy's appeal.
Kris-like, Eros rises.
Chin Ho eschews the British, always.
Knee-jerking, emotive response, certainly.
However, experience teaches Brits
are kinkily erotic rascals!
kismet expectant.
Rhoda can't help eyeing
the boy's artful kabaya.
Even Robert's charmed.
How entrancing, the boy's appeal.
Kris-like, Eros rises.
Chin Ho eschews the British, always.
Knee-jerking, emotive response, certainly.
However, experience teaches Brits
are kinkily erotic rascals!
These poems are Oulipian in method – the first letter of each word spells out the name in the title. Derrick Buttress lives in Nottingham. His account of his working class childhood there, Broxtowe Boy, will be published by Shoestring Press in June 2004.
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