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Monday, 23 January 2012

Picture This!


Picture this:



Couples on Aberystwyth Seafront
Flags batterred by politics
People who cannnot reverse
A Monument to the dead and dying
Heaving breasts under ill fitting T shirts
As the life/death guard uses a traffic cone to plant a flag
To say that you can’t swim here.
A distress flare breaks over Pen Dinas fired by a woman in
The top floor window of a Bed and Breakfast who has just
Spotted another little Midlands person being swept out to sea in Khaki shorts and flip flops.
The No Vacancies sign is continuously turned by an Obsessive Compulsive
called Lyn
Who shakes his head and dribbles and wishes that he was John Travolta
Flying that plane over there, see it, to Boston.
Mrs Myfanwy Pierce is having a Tea Party and all the little brains have been invited.
She has placed jars around the room in case of an accident
Huge stained panes of glass force gales back and keeps Gail locked under the stairs.
She hadn’t been seen for months.
Victorian Lamps and College Lecturers
Seagulls and Lobster Pots.
“You could have parked in there Ron.
I don’t know why I married you, you’re an arsehole”.
The great architect of the town who prefers to be called God
Carries his animal skin briefcase around from consultation to consultation.
“I built this town”
Terry Waine farts loudly as dad splutters on the icecream, one slip and the seagulls
will have it.
Terry announces “Kicking human heads is far superior to kicking a beach ball”
Another little cosseted psychotic is growing up on an edge of town housing estate.
Rosa Jane, the Gypsy from Devil’s Bridge has a second home in Islington.
When she’s not raking it in from people’s neuroses
She likes to tan crisply and uses a brand name oil to slide across. 
The local minister head bowed by the wind and by an indiscretion that he
committed with a wailing widow from Waunfawr sprints past her tent
On his way to the sad building syndrome library to have a go on that Internet thing.
Buena Vista, Dunroamin, Belle Vue have a choice of two on the menu.
‘Take it or leave it.’
“Just gives us your money will you”
“Oh and yes we hope you have a good time.”
A dead donkey is washed up on the shore and photographs taken
by the great white hunters. 


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