30th January 2014

Sonnet 83

It's "Bottoms up" Show Bar laydees who need

To suffer misexpectation's reset

If paying punter's praise doesn't exceed


What cute girls run-up in MasterCard debt -

Resting dancers reading Cosmo report:

Not cool expecting flush'd suitors to show

Cash devotion - that's selling your looks short,

Babez - and then who'll wait for love to grow?


All those hard won notes lapdances impute,

All those middle agers marriage left dumb,

All those guys in hi-vis vests rendered mute -

Heavy breather's damp breath makes cash a tomb;

    Seals you up with the currency of eyes

    That all your punters in their praise devise.