Profligate words loose

on the door of the British Library Bookshop.

 

‘Shop Now Open’, 

a toxic affront to the pedantic poetic diaspora,

and mobiliser of minds to make the words clearer.

 

‘Shop Open’ or ‘Open Shop’,

an improvement, but still pointless to the picky,

who righteously say it’s stating the bleeding obvious.

 

‘Shop Now’ or worse, ‘Now Shop’,

are shoddy exhortations, both hollow and useless

to this precision driven and hair-splitting audience.

 

‘Open’, is suffice.

 

Now isn’t that just better, 

and ever so very, very, very nice.