Derek and Clive (A Pair of Haiku)

Derek

 

Up on Beachy Head*
about to toss myself off
when at last she comes



Photo of Derek & Clive by Keith Morris (August 1976)

 

Clive

 

In Corduroy Gaol

Trouser Snake sleeps softly in

his cotton hammock

B.R. 22/08/2015

* A chalk headland in East Sussex, UK. Its height has made it one of the most notorious suicide spots in the world.