Icon
There were four lanes
but lorries were nudging us.
Easier to undertake
for a few minutes,
so I moved my driver,
an IT consultant,
to the hard shoulder.
Took care, slowed down.
Didn't need hazard lights:
that is not why
my thirty year old
bought a red Maserati.
Then flew him over the ton
past the little platform
where motorway police
eat their sandwiches
and, seeing the wall
of the bridge
coming up ahead
and the slow lane packed
on my right and him,
catching sight
of the Lane End sign
on the hard shoulder
and panicking,
I sang this lyric,
goodbye to you,
icon-gatherer.
but lorries were nudging us.
Easier to undertake
for a few minutes,
so I moved my driver,
an IT consultant,
to the hard shoulder.
Took care, slowed down.
Didn't need hazard lights:
that is not why
my thirty year old
bought a red Maserati.
Then flew him over the ton
past the little platform
where motorway police
eat their sandwiches
and, seeing the wall
of the bridge
coming up ahead
and the slow lane packed
on my right and him,
catching sight
of the Lane End sign
on the hard shoulder
and panicking,
I sang this lyric,
goodbye to you,
icon-gatherer.
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