Brexit Visa Horror
or, Hotel De La Gare
Made to book accommodation
in France, in advance, a death trap.
The country is now off the map.
Oh! to go in isolation.
I almost made it to Granville
but, Train fin, got stuck in Nordville
taking trains lents around from Caen
down to Bordeaux, having no plan.
Passport in a lead-lined wallet
not to be a night-time target...
staying at Nantes, with no regret.
Old Caen, the family hamlet.
Haute-Auvergne (Cantal)
Lost, dans (Le) Hotel De La Gare
you do not know where you are.
A view of drainpipes, at the back
leads down to where the pigeons tack.
You were haunted by Aurillac,
wanting to be there without a care.
Who can you write to, say mon cher ?
A train is coming down the track
in slow motion. No going back.
August 10th/11th
Dating Game Londres
"...Nice to meet, are you working hard.
Oh, and where is your credit card.
Most English girls look like lard ;
peut-etre, je suis en retard.
Lend me your card, then shag me hard.
Heureusement, you have no beard !
Write cinq a' six on your score card.
Are you a rammer as The Shard ?
I do not relish in the barnyard..."
Ultra, Uber (Sonnet) for HK
Where do the room over-furnished,
the women super rich-burnished
in Notting Hill, come from ? Bizarre
in a way, back from the Bazaar...
at the start, Annabel Goldsmith
when unheard of, was the fingersmith
in the gauche 1970s.
Somebody now, charging fat fees.
Do they swan, deep-deeper in bed
their in-text messaging unread ?
Is she A-list celebrity
or a B-list celebrity ?
Such the worry of Harriet
showering, soaping by moonlight.
Ditto Dotty, Cynthia
Lucinda, then Belinda, Pope
slither on the slippery slope.
They were all satis enough rope !
There is another doubtful trope...
the virgin never gave up hope,
despite always bargaining nope.
Or sliding from cocaine to dope,
still admiring the antelope.
Too Young To Star
The tragedy of Harriet
was Last Year In Marienbad
not there for her, suitably sad
altering la mode dominant,
for Film shot in Bavaria,
Munich the richer area.
Can we motor down to Karlsbad
or Baden-Baden, to be mad ?
New England Redact
Loudest orgasm, in shower
I did hear came from Fiona
before knowing of her cancer.
I miss sunset in Aquitaine
after the ending of her pain.
Said she hated the endless rain.
From American Into English
She said she hated endless rain.
In The Standard Vanguard
Mother, father adored Baden-
Baden, loving the Rose Garden.
Wanting, in a way, a pardon.
The British Army of The Rhine,
this may be a prior refrain.
My mother lamented Dresden.
August 10th/20th now August 11th+
Cultural Faux-Pas
One, the Arsenal debacle
then black boyz at the turntable.
Nothing from a proper stable.
dicta The Virgin Mary
Cafe Au Terrace (1966-26)
I sip coffee from a soup bowl
as shown me, jeune, in Normandy
chez le Madame de Sedouey.
I drew alien enemy
without hearing animals howl.
My space riders fought with a scowl.
This was not long after Cuba.
The French girls had a scooter ;
the youths with bikes, to a hooter.
Taller Today
W.H. Auden (Self) Selected
for Penguin (1958) -
the 1930s, wierdly gone
with his ruin Revolution.
Herein, the rational title
and he put away the rifle.
Auden did not sup on trifle.
Mid-August Putsch
A break-through deadly, in Ukraine
in The Donbas, a vital town
gone past, fortifications down
and the problem is manpower
one may suspect, or drone shower.
They can keep on coming, in pain.
Under Orders (1942)
Joan said : what you cannot forget
is that, in uniform you are
just a number signed into war
with no nights at the Cabaret.
Some half-joked : there is a bullet
out there, and on it, your number.
August 11th/21st
Seance With Joan
We need more mobile howitzer.
Ours, we gave to the farmer.
Donbas : wine gone, salt for cellar,
a losing their humanity.
August 12th/26th
Lotus Evija ex City AM
0 > 62 in 3.0 sec...
what an electrifying trek.
A rabid, maniacal scream
emanates from the four motors,
a shrill wail in surround sound.
"As the country hurtles to hell
in a handcart, Libs one big shrug."
With £2.4 million price tag.
Will someone buy me an ice cream ?
I was never part of a team.
August 13th/26th
Pirate Radio Terror
August, 1967
The Marine Broadcasting Act banned
pop pirate radio stations
beaming within British waters.
There was a Radio London,
and tough Caroline, by storm panned.
Upset, I joined the protest surge,
bored by Radio Luxembourg
tuned to for late night elations
with ear plugs, under a pillow.
A fear of the mid-Atlantic
accent drove Whitehall frantic.
August 14th/26th
August Poser
Barking Reach, Barking Riverside
were on the horizon, Friday
but temperature near thirty
made travel daunt ; at Camden Road
there had been fires by the track
and irruption. I, uneasy.
At dawn, a nightmare did come back
about being on the wrong side
and the unfeasible.
She, bare,
an ice queen, of frigidity
keen on arousal, to get by,
a poseur, tantalising shy
and, legally, not worth a try.
One simper, taken for a ride.
August 15th/26th
Travel Query
Is Barking a dormitory
for, upper to the Wharf Canary ?
How rapid is the Thames Clipper
in truly appalling weather,
in a swell a crashing dipper ?
To rain streaming down a window
in winter, how safe late for tea.
City Slag
Worse off without the loss ! the wag
declared on a City main drag,
positioning out of the bag.
Back by Riverside, a vast sky
for delirium, if you cry
of a weekend, getting ready
hoping that she would go steady.
August 15th/27th
August Guardo
The heat got rather difficult
bearing down on everything,
as in Spain, your composition
to mantra, tantra, with passion
guarded.
I read more Machado,
lament that I pitch no MacNeice
(Louis) equivalent Fabers' tome,
yet can publish in real time
site online in Maine, New England
honouring forming the sublime.
August 16th
OTC, August
Onward Christian Soldiers !
my impelling Hymn, Sunday Church
service crowning. We, in the lurch.
Solidarity, at Marlborough.
Heat shimmer, rear of Primrose Hill :
getting ready to charge, until.
In August mud Somme, no boulders.
On her back, girly sunbather,
lithe, slim ; she would not like failure.
I picture, from College Chapel
to near where Communion, a glow.
No change, hearing : ready to go
August 17th cf as Officer Training Corps
(I but made it to The Rifle Range (sniper)
For Angela Rayner
In your Christian name : an angel.
For Allah, they aim to strangle.
We : make everyone sing a Hymn.
Daily, three hours at The Gym !
The World Today
Is Donbas the new Sudet-
enland ? What do you want to bet ?
Demobilised - a peach target.
Would the German-Russo Div. fight
keeping Panthers in the twilight.
Let there be nothing to regret.
We need the Harrier Jump Jet.
Why, our ammunition suspect ?
August 17th
Licence To Breed
More insanity, Downing Street
paying the worthless for Infant
Three, or more, in a brat surfeit.
Unwise, when on bankruptcy street.
From the bloated, a dying tweet.
The King Apostate
Buried the origin Roman
in favour of the sub-German.
Atone, a good Thuringian
reciting the Latin Nicene.
Conditional, for citizen.
Who Is To Blame ?
Cameron, and Osborne, with their
Defence Cuts baring frontier.
For Putin, ran up a White Flag,
lost in Old Etonian drag
not in The Dress Rehearsal Rag,
with someone going for a fag.
Putin thought, had it in the bag
but his Supply Chain, the one snag.
The Train Not Taken for Olga R
Travelling Warsaw, to Kyiv
low in the land of make-believe
we hope for something to retrieve.
In The Dine Car, Chicken Kiev
springing for a fabulous rave,
at which no one would misbehave
with, underground, a fetid cave.
Who gave everything they could give ?
We fight, never to be a slave.
August 19th the son of a British Officer
August 27th Irate Editorial Note
Once, the much-praised Autumn Journal.
This, morphing, your August Journal.
Finger more themes : not the banal !
Le Crise Formidable
" They are all unreliable
the spreading out people, grotesque
in their debauch, flooding pavement,
avenue and square, rampaging
like vermin running riot as debt
mounts hidden, our national debt,
by a daft challenged Chancellor
needing to shave twenty billion
a month, from the spend to fatten
a people out of Titus Groan
in a way. They will learn to brave
austerity, morality
in action, for a media
deluded beyond God. Savage. "
Note : from Section called Diatribe ?
We need Red Flags, if Angry the tribe.
August 20th before redacted August 19th
The Terminator after Swift
What best for the Moslem breeder ?
A patented baby burner...
with fine anaesthetic, prior.
Withering, the wisteria
and the sun is getting hotter.
We must not forget Georgia.
Status Quo, No
Ukraine, in two months over-run
were it not for The Prowler drone
and a blasted Supply column.
Russia infantry had no fun.
The abandoned had not a bun.
Ukraine women left like a nun.
The Black Dwarf after Hogarth
Cynthia had one with a tongue
that could reach as far as her lung.
Ouch ! This not a barrack song.
She, virgin, could do no wrong.
A friend had, knew to use a sponge.
A black dwarf, thought too small to bung..
stop there. She wanted to stay young.
An early version of a sponge.
cf 'Taste In High Life' (Hogarth 1742+)
War AIMS : The Vlad
Detach from NATO : Germany.
Rebuild then The Iron Curtain
and make nothing at all certain,
the Mongol taking liberty.
Austerity Pro
My father, angered in Sussex,
out of the power he once had
in Rhine Germany, much half starving,
berated Consumerism.
Buy Now, Pay Later corrupted
the fibre of the peasant class ;
in this, he in league with John Wain.
He argued tight credit control
should remain. Fatigued Albion
if now, to lose half of body
mass, for a true recovery
by ending the endless bloating.
Who, out on The Rhine, went boating ?
The British Zone had a sorting.
In the year Western Germany joined Nato,
he became Commandant of the Royal Lancers
BAOR/NATO HQ at Herford North-Rhine
Westphalia. In 1955, the arms captured by
Montgomery in 1945 were unpacked, dry.
cf SundialZen.com pf ZY 100 for my 'Lunch
with John Wain (1925-1997) in the 1970s'
in the Literary Journal Acumen 73 May 2012
August 20th/ September 2nd 2025
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