April 2017 – Anne's mediocre poetry

the jokers in charge

can go to hell this is one shrew who fights back 3/9/1982

‘When a rich man chases after dames he’s a man about town, he’s a man about town. When a poor man chases after dames he’s a bounder he’s a rounder he’s a rotter and a lot of dirty names.’ – ‘When the idle poor become the idle rich’ [song from Finnegan’s Rainbow] They depend uponContinue reading “The rules of life”

I know a lady

I know a lady who speaks with her eyes and moves with her arms, a mother bearing her child. She’s the devil some say who will haunt your dreams and steal away with your youth, leaving naught but a skeleton behind. She’s a muse in winter, the red of her cheeks soaked against pale skin,Continue reading “I know a lady”