Seaside Hallucination (Felixstowe Docks)
The shores of sand stood up and waved
The ripples sang their gentle song
How long the navvies hard had slaved!
They'd laboured there all winter long.
They'd built a castle out of shells
With seaweed flags that proudly flew
There, by the ocean's ebbs and swells,
A springtime sky of lambent blue
Contrasted with the pearly white
Teeth of the grinning navvy crew
Who gave the natives quite a fright
Because their teeth, painted anew
Each day by dentists at the site
By now were almost twice as large
As those that glisten in the night
Or those that set sail on a barge
To make their fortunes in Rangoon
Where pesants beg in dusty wear
Or silk (derived from moth's cocoon)
Infests and clutters every stair
And Burmese cats with shiny fur
Weave through the forests with their kin
With daunting wail or friendly purr
They make a really horrid din
That scares the birds for miles around
And sends them crashing to the ground
Contributors: | fester, dkb, Apsley, Beefy. |
Poem finished: | 10th August 2001. |