2 empty pipes rattling with passion

by Penny Goring

you were in a wheelchair in a courtroom

juddering vibrating

pipes rattling so loud

empty pipes rattling with passion

they threw you into my cell

to teach all madness a lesson

irate and shaking you were shouting

with passion

your wheelchair could not contain you

i took you down longhand

on the table over there

i took you into my arms

we fled down corridors with a posse of escapees

we unlocked gates and got gone

sane relaxed women

with bleach-nurtured quiffs

were urging each other to save me

from the hell bent cripple behind me

crying out he’d been abused

i would rather

take under-age swamp boys

those teens tortured by their own eyes

i could make swamp boys believe

under dust-sheets stiffened by ice

i could make sweet smells with

my lunatic fingers

and i will

until i reach the melting ice-rink

filthy slush shovelled by you

i believe only in swamp boys

i believe in my sense of smell

i trust in the grief of the night

became a rattle in the 2

empty pipes in my cell

 

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