Watercolour Room

Filtered through venetian blinds
Laminate kitchenette-with yesterday's cigarettes
Sits on a plaque of scabrous cement
Cracked ceramic Campari ashtray- class, in case of the event

Articulated, clumsy and prehistoric, perhaps with a curlicue of decorative trim
Victorian mechanism
embalmed in trapped dust by pale blue steel
Flash-frozen Loch Ness Monster
Beached submarines and burning fields

Dreams of white marble and slipstream chrome
Red wink of diode, curls of emery paper on yellowed loam

Can't think, Can't eat
Numbers written on scraps in lime-green felt
Tight black jeans rolled to midcalf- Rose-coloured sandals and a plastic belt

So trade your castle in for a insect-quick dolphin car
V-nosed hood and a flecked butterfly menstrual stain eschar
Some Vitamin D and a pat on the back
Blue mirror geometry and neon twinkle of bottle at the bar