Chris McCabe (London, UK): from Zeppelins: The Transmidland Liverpool to London Express (sonnets in simultaneous time): Hightown

In a dark dark town there was a dark
dark street. Down the dark dark street
there was a dark dark pub. In the dark
dark pub there was a dark dark shelf.
On the dark dark shelf there was a book
called Competition & Monopoly. Reproduction
mustachioed Mona Lisa splattered with the
house gravy. We took an axe to the
Constitution Club. Say cheers with a Guinness
sounds like a marble medley of black
snooker balls. Twelve the maximum.
Take this cover-up on a city with issues:
Mr. Thornton with his strap-on choc cock.
In a dark dark town there was a dark dark

© Chris McCabe 2008