Eat In, Carry Out

The Clock
3, 4 & 5 Sandbeck Arcade
Skegness

Fish, chips, mushy peas
Tea, bread with butter

‘We do not do fast food
Only good food as fast as we can’

Up the road
At the Grosvenor Hotel
My partner conducts a wedding
For someone who hasn’t yet paid

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Water Features

I constructed a rill
Beside Devonport Leat
With my life now complete
I ventured downhill

Every day another pill
To reside in defeat
My surrender so so replete
I look out over the windowsill

No more salmon with dill
Nor dancing lively to The Beat
My future then is in walking feet
I looked back, and look back still

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Second Cup - IV

It seems it’s photograph time
Is this what they call
Community policing

The Muslim chap
Slots his wife
In between the two officers

After the shoot
There are thanks all around
Who knows now

Who has a photograph of who
Except that the Colombian girl
Kept her face covered

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Second Cup - III

The girls seem uncomfortable
It is a facial expression thing
That, and chewing gum, with a

I will stick my tongue out attitude
As I flash my bosoms
And my heavy eyelids, straight at you

The lady police officer
Appears unmoved by events
The game is nothing new to her

Only by close observation
Do I notice the length of the peak
On the policeman’s helmet

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Second Cup - II

Should you like to take things
Out of context
Let me tell you
About the two women on the sofa

Oddly, almost exactly where
The police force move to
Now, if you thought that those
Shamefully made up girls

Were in any way on the game
Then the fact that PC Brightside
Took a clandestine photograph
Maybe confirms your prejudice

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