Sunday 23 August 2015

Sex on the Beach by Monica Lang

Sex on the Beach? well surely not
not here on Teignmouth Den
haha!  the name for that cocktail drink
In Kavos way back when

Midori , Chambord, orange juice,
 Amaretto and melon liqueur
Grenadine and vodka shots,
peach schnapps, maraschino and more

Perhaps it's just a brolly joke?
...Let's hold hands in the rain
...No need. I've got a brolly dear
Now don't be such a pain

...What goes up a chimney up
not down a chimney down?
...Not that tatty brolly dear.
Its bits are falling around

How is that a sculpture then…
a brolly in the ground?
No. It's a paper parasol
the sort that can be found

lined up on the bar in nitespots and clubs
on the edges of highball glass
to catch them as they stumble by;
the sad and drunken mass 

who party on and party by
and party all night long.
Why shouldn't they enjoy themselves?
This sculpture says it's wrong

Two cocktail sticks for him and her
insist a carnal theme.
Amongst the kiddies' joyful art -
that's somehow out of tune

The pearl necklace is sinister;
it's meaning dark and rude.
If you don't know, your heart won't grieve
its message which is lewd

We've gone forth and multiplied far too much;
filled the earth with men and their poison.
We produce heavy metal and  we burn  carbon fuel.
Plastic mountains fill up  the horizon.

Like Renoir's  tangled mass of black
 in his busy Paris street;
like the simple lines of a flock of them;
the vision of Magritte;

Susan Plover uses the same idea
to symbolise and present
that nothing lasts; to take more care.
Our planet is transient

a discord mid the harmony
so the wind will howl and roar
and tear this flimsy parasol
until it is no more



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