Sunday, 30 December 2012

A Waiting Room, Brighton

I think that’s their cat? rubbing
around a mattress, no bed
frame or other furniture, a mouse
counting cash in the other room
it’s Big Cheese business, not for us
Babybel, trying to settle
a ledger, we bet our hasty escape
on that loose garden gate
having not been fixed

    - c.h., 3rd June 2022

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