Eros at the Tottenham Royal
Child big with wonder, filling your heart’s soft centre
with sweet thick images of gowns and baubles,
pleasure my lies with your half-believing smile,
fluting your known responses in uneasy trebles.
Gangster of the soft glance, muscling in with a sway
on the racket of indifference, you strong-arm
me into compliance with a single laugh,
tickle desire till it cries like a thunderstorm.
Under soft April skies I would cherish you
in the spring’s bowers, watching my freedoms fall
like unregretted pigeons after the long
tumultuous flight. O queen of the crowded dance-hall,
involve me in your lacquered majesty,
your politics of rouge, and never let
the bright lights of your eyes dim down and glow
in the city’s darkness like lonely cigarettes.
I walk the pavements of your young enjoyment
and look for your heart’s true house; inquisitive,
I log the numbers of the many doors,
stopping to knock and ask where you really live.
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