September: Kirsty Elson’s Calendar Image…
Was it the expense involved in hiring the deckchairs
That has sent holidaymakers scurrying away?
Or are they guzzling their ice-creams, pasties, chips, or pizzas
Afresco ‘neath the awning to keep scavenging seagulls at bay?
Have the cottages taken on human expressions?
The pale one’s life-ring is now painted lips, gasping “Ooooh!”
The door is a nose, turned blue from years of Navy rum,
And the gull is a hair-slide near the roof’s chimney flue…
The cottages are surely wearing fun holiday sunglasses
But the larger home’s door lamp is surely a hooked nose?
A stern red mouth displays no apparent holiday cheer,
For it has sucked in its cheeks ’til blue in the face, I suppose…
Pete Ray
August 2018
Artist Kirsty Elson’s 2018 calendar and the September image…
And the flagpole is maybe an advert for Domino pizzas?
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