(ALL IS AS WAS, 1992)

NOT THAT FAR BACK IT WAS, JUST A FEW DAYS GONE BY

in the winebar half-lit there she sat quite nearby

she had her eyes on me looked like she’d drunk too much

so I thought to myself maybe she’d have the touch

Though I was in that state when the ground moves in waves

I sat beside her asked (with a nice turn of phrase)

and with foam at the mouth much like a rabid cur

I put my palm up her skirt right up you know where

A little passively (usefully I may say)

frigidly, fixedly she kept her stare away

making out that it made no impression at all

at least to start with while sitting, before her fall

…Under the table she stayed, stockings at her knees

I stood up to drink more (one of us pleased at least)

then they took her away. Still staring open-eyed!

better a dummy, than dumbstruck and petrified…