Escalator
Have you watched
a pleasant shaped
blue-jean clad
derriere just
several steps
before your gaze
as you travel upon
the escalator?
And, have you
been polite
and looked
downward instead
so as to look
at the pencil thin
heels of a pair of
black patent leather
high arch shoes?
Grazing Herd
Sitting on a bench seat midst green
between Pall Mall and Bixteth Street
on a sunny day.
I sit watching passers-by, as I slowly,
very slowly, eat my egg batch and sip
at my coffee …
And it strikes me, as another person
passes by, paper-bag in hand, that
many eat ‘on the hoof’ as it were …
And, I smile, as I wonder to myself,
“Have we become a nation of cattle?”
Dressed …
Dressed to please
and
posed to tease -
with your buttocks
raised …
I stand,
admire …
and
… slowly
draw back my hand.
*
Heels
I see -
long
tapered heels,
shiney
… and black,
that hold
within
… a delicate sling-back
a
well-shaped
foot
… that I know
where to put …
if she will let me.
*
Coutesy of a recent revist to the Mueseum of past hurts, I re-encountered and wrote this ...
- My Best Friend -
Hell me ~
Hell you …
what a thing
- for you to do
You went with him
when it shoulda
bin me:
You went with him
When I thought
you were mine
What was it?
Just a different wine?
An only now
can I look back and see ~
just why it happened
in the way it did.
You grew up fast
An it couldn’t last
- when ambition took over
I had rolled over …
Just like rover.
An we didn’t talk
- so, I shall
not balk
at the end of it an all
- an all …
But, ‘Hell on you’
an ‘Hell on me’
- why on earth
could I not see … ?
… just what was happened
in front of me?
I couldn’t cope
- didn’t have a hope -
An he’d offered
to be a friend …
Some friend …
my best friend.
Waiting … to Commute
I watched the man walk,
to and fro ~
being careful where he
puts each foot.
Is he avoiding the ants?
I mused,
Or, are the ants avoiding him?
*
Morning Commuter
Catch the first sunlight
of the morning
Just as it’s dawning
so as to catch the train.
And your eyes are heavy
from the night before
and a drink with the lads
that had ended in the park
with a girl,
whose name just went
in that alcoholic swirl
as you had closed your eyes.
Then, the alarm, shrill
and annoying sounded its call
to rise, at ten past six.
And, you’d lain there awhile,
wearing a light smile,
as you’d tried to recall
the night before, were you where
and … even your name.
It’s so often the same.
Now, you wait for the train
and your head leans forward
your tongue stuck to the roof
of your mouth.
And once more you doubt
whether it’s worth it
when you have to endure the
Monday Morning Commuter Blues …
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