Showing posts with label Breath of Fresh Air. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Breath of Fresh Air. Show all posts

Tuesday, 13 July 2010

Irma

IRMA
Big Irma
with the padded bra
the load voice
and £4.10 stamped on her left shoe,
opens the door at ten past twelve
(a.m., p.m. - who cares ?)
wearing flimsy nightie over temperate flesh
A Lancashire lass with turned up nose
turned it up in canny Shields
Talk of the Jungle
Cheapest crumpet south of the Tweed
Guzzles down a pint of Newcastle Brown
in a minute flat
Never flat-broken
unless you ask
Don't up to the flat
it's cleaner than herself
© GERALD ENGLAND

Composed: Ackworth, 7th June 1971

Publication

1973 Breath of Fresh Air (UK)