for PATTAYA TRADER 252 (A)

YES-THE-LADY-LIKE-THE-BROWN-HEROIN-
FROM-MEXICO-FIND-SOME-SAY
Ah ! Mexico Maxine,
she is a brown honey.
She is a brown sugar
and bang on the money
when it comes to good looks.
The girl's no real Mexican...
she works like a drug
in the head of a man.

A-WINDING-DOWN
A sprirally downward slide,
and yet you find it as fun
as you can a helterskelter ride,
hitting bottom on your bum.

CUE-A-FULL-LIFE-IN-COLOUR
Sometimes the sea is green,
sometimes the sea is grey.
Sometimes the sea is blue.
On life's ocean sail away,
and your date with destiny keep
on this also violet, purple deep.

for PATTAYA TRADER 251 (E)

A WOLF MOON
It's a baying wolf, girl,
you will hear tonight
when I'm bedded beside you
in the so-magic moonlight.

HARD-WORKING CINDERELLA
Don't look down on her
like a true snob,
Cinderella works hard
to find a job.

BUSY-BUYING-BIG-STYLE-NOW?
A very idle rich man.
A very idle poor man on the dole.
If the latter wins the Lottery
will it reverse his role?

for PATTAYA TRADER 251 (D)

JUMPING-TO-A-CONCLUSION-
LIKE-ICARUS?
You wax your wings and then fast run
off a cliff, fly into the sun.
But down you tumble, down you come.
Oh aren't you a feather-brained-one?!

JUICED-UP-ON-JAZZ-YES
He was baggy-trousered dapper.
She, his girl, was a giddy Flapper.
Partying was a big buzz
and all to the sound of jazz.
Though she was cautious as her mother.

"Avoid vaccinations," was the term
for the sexually-inactive and concerned.
Yes partying was a big buzz
and all to the sound of jazz.
But his finger never got burned.

for PATTAYA TRADER 251 (C)

FAIR SEX
Of fire and brimstone
Adam caught a whiff
when equal status
he refused Lilith.

Lilith, his first wife,
sprouted bat-wings,
cursed, damned Adam
and his future offspring.

Oh yes folk, yes,
how Lilith turned.
Why has hell no fury
like a woman spurned?

THOR-LOST-IN-THE-THAW?
Norsemen, Northmen,
vikings in Normandy.
Settlers from the icy North
were they, globally.

Pirates, ah find pirates,
and men of war,
whose god had once been
the thunderous Thor.

for PATTAYA TRADER 251 (B)

CONFUSING-NORMAL-WITH-NATURAL
Normal is concrete.
Natural is grass.
Yet there're folk can't tell
their elbow from their ass !

for PATTAYA TRADER 251 (A)

THE LOVE-POET
Silver fox hair,
a distinguished look,
a poet with panache
in her verse book.

A young poetess
an older poet hounds.
She loves his rhythm,
his rhyming sounds.

VOCALIST VERSE
Trust a communist to want
to censor free speech
and trust a fascist
to want to, too.
Though I'm not a capitalist
I can voice this view.

for PATTAYA TRADER 250 (G)

HERE'S-THE-LAND-NOT-IN-
THE-TYRANTS'-HANDS
There are soldiers who won't march again
as you board freedom's train
that will take you from Waterloo
to the station you are headed to.

You're not enslaved, you're not enchained,
as you board freedom's train
that will take you from Waterloo.
Dead-the-despots who'd steal the view.

for PATTAYA TRADER 250 (F)

WORDSPELL
Magic spill
in ink, and spell.

A-SANDCASTLE-KING-AND-NOT-
A-WAVES-KING-VERSE
Time is the sea
not the sands.
I build castles
on which it lands
and ruins my dreams.
Where the sun-and-icecreams?

for PATTAYA TRADER 250 (E)

EVERYWAY FOREVER?
She loves me this way,
she says.
Also loves me that way.
Loves me always?

A-SHOT-CALLER-AT-
LONG-LAST-SHE
In black silk stockings
and a white fur coat,
beside her on the bed
a suicide-note:
'I'm a call girl, gun at brain.
Goodnight all. You won't phone again.'

Below: (Juliette Greco in French. Not Juliet.)

for PATTAYA TRADER 250 (D)

TUNE-AND-TONE-AND-
TIMEBEAT
A blonde Juliet Greco,
ah yes the girl's lookalike.
She inspired many beatniks
to sing, paint and write.

Now turned to grey her hair
(though aged-well her bones),
song and art and literature
have also changed their tones.

for PATTAYA TRADER 250 (C)

A-HEAVENLY-VENUS
Gold-bright-Venus she,
the far Star of the Sea.
Born of the ocean-foam,
the heavens became her home.
Star, planet and Greek-deity.

"DUCK-DOWN-AND-DON'T-QUACK !"
Keep your head down,
yes keep it down.
Don't say a word
or it may get around
that you are mouthy at best
and trying to be head above the rest.

for PATTAYA TRADER 250 (B)

WALL-TO-WALL-CARPETING
Put your head above the parapet
projectiles from missile-mouths often get.
Some hide their heads under the mud carpet.

COMPLETE SATISFACTION
She was part-Siamese,
part-Chinese,
but on the whole,
just eager to please !