The Voyage: Edited by Chandani Lokuge & David Morley

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by Silkworms Ink Anthologies

What rough beast…

  Jon Tipple in ‘The Granta’

  all randy laughter, Eraserhead hair,

  fingering shrapnel from the till,

  collaring a chilled draught Guinness.

  Love’s bitter mystery…

  The trace of down

  on an arm can do it. T-bone, fillet, rump.

  ‘Green leaf or mixed, dressing for the salad, sir ?’

  Grant me an old man’s frenzy.

  What else have I to spur me into song ?

  Ah, there, across

  the mill pond towards the new Pizzeria,

  those punters with the pole playing silly buggers

  right next to that swan.

 

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