25th January 2014

Sonnet 79

BOGOFF BOGOFF BOGOFF slave migrant aid,

Midnight trawls under a Thai moon will grace

Acres of Tesco Metros - the decayed

Squid eyes in a blue plastic basket place.

She had the lingo, caught their argument

In Thai talk, in a rock pool hot tub pen -

"She's a big pink prawn!  Gods greedy invent!"

She sank her big mouth to the soup again.

You'll get thrown overboard, your broker's word,

Or fish four years for $30 - give

In or you're the fish smish food we afford:

They eat you, we eat them - it's how we live.

Half price double portions, BARGAIN! we say,

We eat what we are - it's not much to pay.