Amtrak Ride for DG
San Fran, to LA
shanty town hovels, dead men ;
America, Latin.
Burnt-Out Cars
Silicon Valley
bred (partly red) sonic wealth,
out of proportion.
Britannic Doom for JS
Then, with Red Robbo,
Harold Wilson, KGB
in thrall to Moscow.
Merci Unilever !
Lipton Ice Tea, Le The'
glace' gorge' de soleil.
Delicieusement !
At Her Orchard for Lady B.
Alpine cumuli
began to build, scudding west
over The Pond Heights.
Bright Young Things for Bar (photographer)
Post Verdun, The Somme :
yet, how few of them there were
in Soho, Mayfair.
Verdun Coup for Prince Max (born Baden-Baden)
The Kaiser wanted
pax ; The Prussian General
Staff, a meat-grinder.
Lenin, From Germany for Edmund Wilson (1940)
The Finland Station
for the sealed train, Lenin.
Annihilation.
Deck Hands for The Grocer
Grosser Edward Heath
bought young Australian crew,
for Yacht Morning Cloud.
Croydon Stomp not Romp
Selsdon Man, Surrey
a plump Heath-ite businessman,
with hands rubbery.
June 13th
Proclaiming Salisbury for Molly (born Rhodesia)
At each Point-to-Point,
car radio aerial
flags, pro UDI.
Gang Violence
The hooded figure
in black, wielding a knife
has taken a life.
Lenin : His NEP
Is property theft ?
If everything is shared,
who keeps anything ?
Conscripted
It is your turn next
to obey, and then defy
bullets in your charge.
Lenin's Hard Road for Brecht
Lenin's peasant road
gave the one to great famine,
seizure, disaster.
Portmanteau Protocol
Gauging superfine
contra barbarism,
lavender language.
Le Debutante Vierge
Desiring, I do
much want proper deportment
and etiquette learnt.
June 14th
North Dalrymple-Hamilton MBE CVO DL, RN
Off Malaya, North
Captained Cruiser H.M.S
Birmingham. Mary. daughter Baron Clydesmuir
Malayan Emergency
North tacked, escorting
our Aircraft carrier H.
M.S. Glorious. Hon. Mary a Godmother
SOE Dick
My doomy father
boomed scathing on Vietnam.
Too little, too late
Natal Journey for Joan (my mother)
Malaya, Aden
then alp Hindhead, before North-
Rhine Westphalia. Nordrhein-Westfalen
Darkened Windows
Dud Gangster Osborne
kept a black Range Rover,
bled oil dividends.
Ukraine 2015/15
Cameron ran up
the white flag, leaving Nato
to Putin, cutting.
Bismarck (Pre Tito) for General Airey (at Trieste)
The Balkans are not
worth the bones of a Pomer-
ian grenadier !
June 15th
Ministry Of War for Wace
Massive the danger,
yet the dozing were not told
a priority.
Living Space or, Lebensraum
The Old Empire
larger far than Albion,
with heimat for all !
Grandee Space for Dinah
From Land enclosure
to the starving smallholder,
and The Tower Block.
Ever On for Mimi
The catastrophe
mind in the digirama
like a butterfly.
June 16th
Revelatory
Not one Budweiser,
but black tea in a sweaty lunch
delving a hunch.
Congregants
Neat, engage', pert
with nipples barely contour
the two young women.
Suprematist (b. Kyiv 1878)
Malevich, murdered
by Stalin. Caricature ;
prison, early death.
June 18th
Yachting, Broadstairs
Heath loved his Morning
Cloud, and he was full of joy
rounding a red buoy.
June 19th
Surrey Vermin (1)
In particular
they sharp elbow each other
hard, for a gnawing.
The Reason Why
Well : overcrowding
makes you ratty. As Beckett
might joke, gingery.
Guildhall Yard 2023 for The King
ALL ROADS LEAD TO ROME,
EVEN IN LONDON. City
A.M., June 14
Neander Chomp Romp
Gnaw, gnaw, Jaw jaw raw
in The Steak House, their staking
a bloody licking.
Plath Hermetic after Skunk Hour (c.1956)
Suicide, a sin.
Forgot her time in New York,
with Robert Lowell.
June 20th
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