Helên Thomas
Cuni Verse: Goddess and Poet and not of this Earth
She wears baad ass batik
And a velveteen sash
Looks like a sad acid trip
That’s been out on the lash
She’s a poet and a deaconess
Her talent is transparent
Diaphanous in her address
Orally she’s arrant
Bisexual in the sixties
She’s the high priestess of weird
She believes in elves and pixies
She’s got stardust in her beard
Her lexicon’s homespun tie dyed
She weaves her words with woad
And woe betide those who’d deride
Her deftly knitted odes
She’s ventured into voodoo
And she’s sampled stuff that’s Sapphic
She’s shown her arse in Burton’s window
And halted all the traffic
She chatrooms on a ouija board
With people who are dead
Drinks ‘shroom tea from crafted gourds
And then she goes to bed
Where she dreams of ancient loves
Mindful of incarnations
Brief encounters, cherubs, doves
Rendezvous in railway stations
Waking up in purple PJ’s
With an urge to cough and spit
Back ache brings on dreams of bidets
As she takes a shit
She wonders where she lost the time
And tree-like gained the girth
As autumn leaves her swirling mind
Composts into the earth
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