Fairground Beat

Jelly feet crowds
tied with crow tongues
as children
squeeze life from mothers hand.
Animal lights shine delighted
frenzy into speed.
Stuffed with candy floss
and hot dogs (hold the mustard).

Stop and start
hair raising wheels
of rollercoaster wilderness.
White knuckles
hide fear,
death in a sandwich
up and down
and around the bezerk.

Starving goldfish
(hold the gold)
won with boomerangs,
bearded coconuts
line the firing squad,
unkempt and quaking
as cola cowboys wank their triggers
for fluffy whatarethoses?
on their gallows.

Nine lives
to a fairground beat,
grinding clicking hearts
and silver bones
to dust.
Stuck to the
toffee apple handrail
the teeth clenched sun
rolls on
in fingernail flashbombs...

@Steven Francis 1997