Alchemisland

Did senior infants twice

Had head lice

Had strikes, struck out thrice

Got head twice one night different mouths

Almost lost count but not of lies I told

Could see us growing old together, sprouting mould together

Two go-getters get wetting, wet getting, house shopping and make nesting

Enduring all weathers

When our hands are too curled to write letters, darling

Let us look shocking together, two old leather stockings

Marling sang hope in the air, you said no sad songs and skipped forward

Spiralling dope scents the air, light is off but I sense you there before you inch forward

Fasten around me like a rebel’s bandolier

I say nothing and nothing happens, nothing comes of nothing my dear

Speak again, Cordelia nearest and dearest, I am King Lear

This blasted heath on which we speak, of which we speak, full fathom five thy father lies

Edward Lear owl and the pussycat, pea green boat

She hands smoke, green pokes through

Sidelong looking long at you taking long drags off a piff

Rising thong like a Nike swoosh, black on your white hip

Bite a coin, does it ring true?

We are the wild tamed, peerless no betters, know no better

Loyal as a red setter, royal as a gold sunset, royal as a horse unfettered with flowing fetlocks.