Cabaret

                   CABARET

                   red rubber duck-
                   dudley moore with
                   long grey hair
                   and salford speech

                   - geriatric teenager
                   inciting lasciviousness
                   in an iridescence
                   of irreverant irrelevance

                   turning duckless diners
                   into toetapping dancers
                   gyrating girdles squeezing
                   on an uncarpeted square

                   while wedged waitresses
                   edge alcoholic trays
                   towards tipsy tables
                   atmosphered by candles;

                   the inside warmth
                   permeates poorly
                   to outside pavements
                   from which rain rebounds

                  ©  GERALD ENGLAND

Composed: Ashton under Lyne, 20th December 1983

Publication

1987 National Convention Magazine (UK)

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© Gerald England

Composed: Sheffield, 25th May 1973

Publications

1985 National Poetry Convention Magazine (UK)
1993 FOUR SQUARE REPLAY (Leeds, Krax)

(47)

it is rarely the
wisest of women who will
yield by appointment

© GERALD ENGLAND

Composed: Ackworth, 20th April 1973

Publication

1985 National Poetry Convention Magazine (UK)

(41)

penny for the guy ?
for him ? - if you're for him then
why do you burn him ?

© GERALD ENGLAND

Composed: Sheffield, 5th November 1971

Publication

1985 National Poetry Convention Magazine (UK)