Canal Street
Hetero-clitero-homophile-gaiety Querulous queens invoking the deity Cross-dress transvestiges, cleric and laity Lovebums and lecherlewds loll under lamps. The boners, the groaners, the boozers and cruisers Snorters, up-shooters, occasional users Dealers, and dabblers, losers, refusers Happy-go-lucky heroines on hemp Bi-monosexual, solo depravity Sun-dried tomato, pied mince and gravity 'ave a rum cocktail? No ta, I'll 'ave a tea Drink it up quick, and onward they tramp. Latest in latex, loverly, rubbery Clattery chain-clank, clandestine clubbery, Slithery slavvery, sex in the shrubbery Fatefully faithless, virgin and vamp. Crutch-boys and Dutch toys, fingers with ringers Sad sighs, and big guys, quick splitters, lingerers Butch lasses, duchesses, much of a muchnesses, On mist-moistened towpath a shire horse tamps Lickety-spittle the tattle and tittle The noisy, the boysie, the ones who say little Rumourers, humourers, pawing their vittles Bargee on tiller, rubs arthritic-cramp. Doors close steadily, street yawning shabbily lights out, last taxi goes, fares chatter gabbily confusing, abusing , long-suffering cabby-he sighs as he wonders, at grown men so camp. Musculo -skeletal, homophobe bellyful Towpath mud-trudging, getting your welly full Horse and master stare, thoughts unintelligible Turn towards Deansgate, intent to decamp.
Anthony Emmerson
Sun 18th Jan 2009 17:59
Hi Julian.
I'm quite new here and only found this by trawling through the POTM's. I'm so glad I did! It's witty, eloquent, suggestive and such wonderful word-play! Much admired, excellent.
Regards,
A.E.