Fetch Away Fish!
Yellowing leaves frame a watery sky
Titania's baby is suckling
Clinging to breasts which will never run dry
No matter how ugly the duckling
Orange and green are the colours of night
Bottom's child is snoring
Sucking his thumb as the nightmares take fright
And the fingers of dawn come exploring
Scarlet and gold ride the horsemen at dawn
Spirit? or Ass? they're enquiring
Breasting the breeze to the song of the horn
And their stallions' pungent perspiring
Azure and black run the scarabs of Tyre
Sipping the baby's saliva
Milking their prey of his darkest desire
In the saddle with Lady Godiva
Eat many fritos, frighten the sheep
Poison the pen of the master
Cupping his hands as he wards away sleep
Wards away dawn and disaster
Mindnight has sounded, the dancing must end
Horses are ready for riding
The frosty mug sits on his wooden drum,
As the engine sits dumb in the siding
Time, the yardstick of a light too soon streaming
Yokes us in hybrid regret
That all will be woken from life's cheery dreaming
And find life's an infested baguette
| Contributors: | TG, Roland, Loopy, Stacy, Danny, Kent. |
| Poem finished: | 13th July 1997. |