INTRODUCING THE GROSS SIR LES PATTERSON

MAD WOMAN'S BREAKFAST

It seems
that it is preferable to eat sludge
at a mad woman's breakfast
with questionable company
than indulge in fine dining with one

'A chacun son gout' dit
Madame Sosostris to dear Mr.Equitone.

" Windmills Of Your Mind" performed by Sting
The poem beneath was written to the music in this video
and is meant to be read while playing the video.

POETIC ASIDES PROMPT 'NEVER AGAIN'...APRIL 10

Clarisse Becket


NEVER AGAIN

It only takes a song to spin back
the windmills of your mind on a rainy Sunday afternoon

It only takes a song to have you
floundering in a king tide of memories

Too many times too many times
too many waterfalls of scalding tears
too many dark afternoons of despair

I have not forgotten that dumping that tonne weighted wave
breaking my back drowning me in turbulent white water
I didn't see it coming

MEMORIES
I do remember that heady rush of excitement
at seeing your face approaching from the crowd
with an enormous bunch of red roses
I do remember turning my head to quickly rearrange
my expression for fear of bursting with happiness
praying that my pounding heart beating noisely
like flapping wings would not be audible

And

I do remember, with your lips pressed to the nape of my neck
and your arms wrapped around my waist, recklessly burying
my normally alert antennae in all that joy and bliss
finding myself rudderless on that comet ride
through the galaxy, dancing on the rim of the moon

It was all too wonderful
and it came at such a cost

Napowrimo 8... Nursery Rhyme Prompt

Jack Spratt

Jack Spratt could eat no fat
his wife could eat no lean
Jack fell down and broke his crown
his wife was really mean
" No more hot cross buns for you "
she said and licked the platter clean

" You and Humpty Dumpty
are mill stones round my neck
As far as I'm concerned my dear
you'd be better off with Beck
You know, the old woman who
lives in a shoe
who has so many children she is
always looking for someone new."

FOR THE WEEKEND

Priscilla Queen Of The Desert..." I Will Survive "

Do Not Try This In A Middle Eastern Desert.

You Will Not Survive.

MAD DOG POETRY

3WW and Poetry Bus

some creatures are really quite strange
and very peculiar to engage
take Mad Dog for instance
adamant and insistent
that she's really a pineapple princess
who fabricated her existence
as Carmen Miranda's maid

FOR THE WEEKEND

K D LANG for Last Weekend as well.
3WW
nothing helpless about K D Lang
a persuasive voice,not too loud
laden with melodic riches
sans shoes performing diva
knows how to wow an audience
I like her spirit
I wish she lived next door to me
you could leave your shoes outside
and know they would not be nicked