Dennis Leckey
No, not sonnets...No.22
Thrush? Panty liners (invisible) with
wings? Do you mind - I'm having me brekky.
Rice Crispie type things and a scattering
of Bran Flake type things. What's more important?
O.U. results or a toilet roll? In
this pyramid-base Maslowian world
the toilet roll has it every time – if
there's any in the office and/or the
right ones/wrong ones are on duty today.
Why does the salt (sachet 'd) have a hint of
pepper? Why are most things in prison a
simile of reality? Never
catching up to twenty-first century thought,
yet in minute ways overtaking it.
Penguins are so funny. Their flipper'd gait
and flipper'd arms like boys playing at planes.
Arms their wings. Fluffy chicks as big as mums
and proud Emperors with white chests, vivid
colours. On TV – in Las Malvinas?
This could be said to be one of the worst
times of the year. The Christmas break, but there
is a best time. Every day, 6.30
in the silent morning, Classic FM
on number 1. Time for thinking? What will
history make of these Catches Twenty
three, four and five? These times of long darkness.
Darkness you can touch on all your 4 sides,
darkness that must be painted out with light.
wings? Do you mind - I'm having me brekky.
Rice Crispie type things and a scattering
of Bran Flake type things. What's more important?
O.U. results or a toilet roll? In
this pyramid-base Maslowian world
the toilet roll has it every time – if
there's any in the office and/or the
right ones/wrong ones are on duty today.
Why does the salt (sachet 'd) have a hint of
pepper? Why are most things in prison a
simile of reality? Never
catching up to twenty-first century thought,
yet in minute ways overtaking it.
Penguins are so funny. Their flipper'd gait
and flipper'd arms like boys playing at planes.
Arms their wings. Fluffy chicks as big as mums
and proud Emperors with white chests, vivid
colours. On TV – in Las Malvinas?
This could be said to be one of the worst
times of the year. The Christmas break, but there
is a best time. Every day, 6.30
in the silent morning, Classic FM
on number 1. Time for thinking? What will
history make of these Catches Twenty
three, four and five? These times of long darkness.
Darkness you can touch on all your 4 sides,
darkness that must be painted out with light.
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