Sunday 27 December 2020

~ mattie’s gutter ~

    ~ mattie’s gutter ~


emerging from a pipe from somewhere,

we never asked of the spoiler where

this white water came from, milking

over the long rotting hanging bits

and over the silted concrete flume,

flowing in five fingered fountains;

ask not what pathogens we licked

or were licking at our rude health 

running through those childhood days

of feral exhilaration at every indignation 

that raised the hackles of childhood,

that when inkled, would be snuffed out

under the next shower of time to go

on, for the next adventure awaits,

init boys?


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