#1031302 added April 25, 2022 at 2:39am Restrictions: None
A Great Big Shining Star
April 25: Music — write a(nother) poem in response to a particular song or larger musical work (or, alternatively, to a jukebox situation connected to “drunken barroom layabouts” to quote Harlow Flick)
I have seen Miss Clarietta
(in two dimensions, as a vision) riding round on her lambretta
dancing to Miss Clarietta's Rag
reimagining cloth remnants in my bag
I would make Miss Clarietta
as a piece of naive sculpture
satin, kapok, chicken wire
with a great big shining star
to show her where you are
tinfoil, tinsel, isobar lovely flowers of crepe paper
features of her stocking face
are painted on like make-up, lashy,
lips of carmine tart & trashy
dress of second-hand magenta
poet sleeves a-dripping lace
diamantes in the centre
nylon tresses, nests of hair
piled high, a tower, with messy spill
& pinned-in plastic flowers
she's the queen of mountain magic
on a ruby-red lambretta
please send her the love you've stored away
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