DOWN THE LANE

we would scrabble
and slip and slide
to see pigs snuffling
over the other side
of the slate stone wall

in easter sunday silence
we would watch chicks hatch
in hot light bulb arenas
and guilty we would chose one  
to cook for christmas dinner

tho i never believed
the farmer really
kept track

and the dogs he kept
in the barnyard cage
would shatter me 
with their barking

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CRESCENT POPS

1 BIN

maureens not put
her bins out again

i wonder if she is dead

or
just
laying
in



2 OK

( shes fine
  never fills them up enough she says )

theres
a
photographer
round
the
corner

she says

who lures in baby badgers
from the fields
with pet shop chicks

and she hisses at the streetside cats
to keep them off her tiny lawn



3 PAPER BOY

the paper boy
is
such
a
bedraggled orphan
in
the
filthy
night

hood down in the rain
defeated by the wind

that i gift him a chocolate egg

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