Friday, August 17, 2012

The Cough




Loud cheering voices
Black and white television
Hair pulled, noses punched
Legs carelessly dangled on settees
Belching
Blabbering
Gibbering

A careless fart
More jabbering
A stale joke
Wierd laughter
Mosquito bites
Distant howls

The Cough

Prickled ears

-Selah-

Cough

Muffled voices
Mugs hit the floor
Scampering feet
Whisperings
Hurried footsteps

Louder cough

Rushed re-organisations
Plates to the sink
The cat is here
The mice to bed
10 pm

Daddy is back

4.08.2012

Woolf Lecture Theatre, Canterbury, Kent