THIRTY YEARS OF HURT astonishingly
refers to English football. Consider HARM
as substitute; SELF-HARM as last resort.
(That would be Brighton; or would have been -
not even lucky once). Show anarchist
with fizzing hand-grenade. Elicit due
opprobium. Still, the Belgrano
didn't sink itself. BACK OF THE NET!
Indelicate to call on you so soon,
Baroness, but accounts are overdue.
Take cheap shots, where available. Point
but don't laugh at Hartlepool, ceremoniously swathed
in ermine. Wanting direction, follow chariot
of Pluto, capering with open malice.
* * *
Thanks for kind comments on the first poem. "biro'd", incidentally, is
partly an insider's nod in the direction of the work of my friend Laura
Oldfield Ford:
http://www.lauraoldfieldford.com/
I don't yet know what the title should be!
Dominic
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