ADOLESCENT DESKAPE

crustating in class     vassal or vessel

   dripfed by vultures war vets in gowns

      boxed by backrest & knobbled desklid

         iron stanchions stirruping lustings of legs

            often id pore over that oaken scrawled slab

               in veins of stephens blue black & ruby red

                  Jackson Pollock  rorshached  bridget riley

                     so pricked by the press of worsted weave

                        id project  a screen of sassy school lasses

                           gymslips slipping         blouses billowing

                              or piper laurie lured from invisible inkhorn

                                  to kisschase twixt barnacles of bubblegum

                                       till curled in centrefold of blobbed blotter

                                          mutually absorbed  in hot milky embrace

                                             bazoom bazookaed by platinum pentops

                                             scurrying  across  scores of  alien lines

                                             for  a swig of  tizer & squares of  tiffin

                                             id raise my ruler       to sound the siren

                                             or carve  with compass  above the iron

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                                                                      G  L     1956

                                                                                                Michael Small

1979; December, 1990

published Centoria, no.2, April, 1997