Tuesday, August 23, 2016

LOCARNO





Locarno


There are two sides to the light fantastic.

Inside,men tipsy and thin as drainpipes,

right as ninepence in the dim balcony.


Outside,women worried and watch clocking,

now the soft queue shuffle has given way

to the hard tap of late stilettoes.


Rolled between them like a thin cigarette

the escape committee convenes weakly

not knowing that forty years on

the mirror ball will find them all

older and no wiser in it’s new home.



Tony Noon


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