(Feasting on the Haunches of) Richard Madeley

 

Time hanging like ripe fruit
yearning to be picked
Pinned down in Pinner
                                     heavy lotus
                                                        second apprentice to Hendrix
having fab yab-yum
with some chicka-chicks from Maida Vale

"How you doing Jimi?"

"I'm doin' just fine

After you with the Rose's Lemon & Lime"

 

What a jam we had that day

If only I still had the tape

I'd play you 'Voodoo Chamomile'

 

 

 

We know from thighwitness reports

that Richard left the flat

sometim in the post meridiem

with an enigmatic smile

playing on his lips

He caught the tube to Rainbow Bridge

 

Emerging from the underground

he was set upon

by a flock of wingéd monkeys
They knocked him flat on his face
and feastéd on his haunches

The pavement steamed with his hot blood
blood as dark as Vimto
and the encroaching night

 

B.R. 14/04/2016