'Cloth and Club' - August 2018 Collage Poem
Fidel Castro let go of the bed
His broken record bucks with static
Blame blame blame the
P.E. teacher who made my
Life grim.
The earth is burning, the earth is burning
May as well spend the weekend on Blackpool Sands
Love beats abortion, irony beats stupidity
Swirling around in a stark blood red orange
Lost in a made-up history of calming fire-pit ale
Died at cellular level
Never to be reborn
Stung by deep and thorny words
The frog prince pushes Fidel aside
While Monsignor burns sideways.
As summer ends and storms begin,
I pray never to see him with his cloth and club.
Nigel Astell
Tue 14th Aug 2018 12:48
Tis a cloth cap
deliberately thrown awaiting coins
generous payments soon collected
from Stockport club members
who collaborate writing lines
of strange curious nature.