Sunday's Whirligig

THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "Olives" by Donald Hall: listened, alone, prowl, doddering, skulls, fifteen, inscrutable, wrinkles, velvet, skirts, blathering, daughters - 



Sunday's Whirligig

when he was fifteen
wearing a black cape
writing inscrutable verse
he prowled  about
lusting after the neighbour's daughters
cheerleaders
in  short  pleated velvet skirts

now alone
a doddering blathering
wrinkled antiquity
his words became hollow skulls
the only one who listened was his cat




Donald Hall 1928 - 2018

"But, decades later, when the dead   

have stopped blathering   

about olives, obese halfbacks wheeze   

upstairs to sleep beside cheerleaders   

waiting for hip replacements,   "