rarely reaching its eyes
the zipped city sun..
smiles
puckering the vacuum-pursed smile
beloved of the benevolent debt collector..
rise rise repossess and rise
cut out the star for zap-serrated skies
quivering flies sentinel the fraying custard pie
pawn your silver
knit chunky cardigans for your frozen heaters
worms will worm
hail new caesar..
and under that dwindling sun..
a high-energy poodle
yaps like an ever-looping car alarm
because
to this clown-mascaraed mutt
everything looms and screams
fire..fire..fire..
the poor neighbours..
frazzled poodles fluffy tufts scrawny
the best friend and decoy
for burglars
and vehicle thieves..
this tumbling rank towel
this wagging satellite-tracked dementor
this phantomic bucking whirler
is very slowly stalked by its woolly-hatted saskwatch
three different beards interwoven
bristle hay-stacked ziggurat
angst doctorate-decorated
a hidden cam inside his man-bag
he vapes a venetian blinds-style covid mask
disintegrating him his
husk
trust
the man zugzwang..
destined fetched
this north face-clad individual
murkily shape-shifts between smart lamp posts
while his concrete-trampolining bouffant cloud
soft-ligatured
down-lit
stinging rain-deodorised
waters a row of alloyed smart daffodils
golden showered-rusting
steam-sprayed paws-deep
as if immersed
in an award-winning post-modern art installation
for there is no other kind which alights
a panegyrical panel of elite experts so slight
how they delight in themselves
self-proclaimed
gargling word-salad gain-of-function niceties
their airtight art lifeless
thus prized..
and there the man of poodle wanders..
but perhaps
a bead of inner eye inkling
wonders..
