Afternoon in Goody Street
His moody-blue estate, her sporty white coupe
together nose to tail on the Street.
He stays a moment to adjust the park.
She gathers up, wrestles out, blips to lock.
Oh we know her: muttonesque with that urchin hair
and buried chin, loggy arms in full flow out
of a brief little print of a blouse. Maybe birdy waist
but oh so jolly jodhpured thighs, with undie lines.
But him. Out he folds and up and up as she begins
to where she lives with her sleek white cat
who never leaves and singing birds who’ve never sung
‘twixt neighbour A and neighbour B with window pots.
Gorgeous. All that hair, a wrench of a jaw that works
gum, not talk, broad belt, tight gut, studs
and creases in designer jeans, shoulders like glaciers - stop. Ah.
Thump. Looks up, looks down. Locks up, comes along.
Breathless as she unlatches, he catches up, leans,
enters in. Oh what they doing now? Oh what you think.
Drip the window pots. Stretch and streak. And oh
such a flutter with the shutters as we tweet tweet treat.
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