For The Draining-board That Survivors Clutch
Step this way, you man o' war,
Dispossessed by time
And draughts of brine
That went before
Pure turpentine
Was mine
Dispossess the rank heiress
Daubed with foetid slime
Or pints of wine
That matter less
Than Ghibbelline
Divine
Daub again another fresco
Daunting in its rhyme
With curve and line
That Manon Lescaut
Did well opine
Was thine
Contributors: | Apsley, Roland, The Empty Vest. |
Poem finished: | 22nd July 2005 by Apsley. |