Thursday 25 March 2010

The Swing


Delight in the swing, hazard the future,

will she or he take a fall, and the floral frame

garlands the aristocratic fad for the countryside

at the same time the voyeur looks up the dress

what to see a petticoat - how sad that the scene

has been compared like butter with margarine

with the swing in memory, its rusty and noisy

chain, the seat with I love whoever carved

with penknife into the wood, the thirteen year

olds acting tough smokes cancer and fucking

each other into years of benefit and low income

drinking cider and supping a lifetime abuse

as she pretty thing, swings into high ART

for the critic to appraise her gentle sex

to hazard a guess at the weight of his desire

by the theory and method, whereas the swing

in the local estate symbolises lack of amenities

she makes herself more amenable to the EYE

than the kid snotty trying her damn hardest

to get higher, higher and so much HIGHER.

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