didn't you love your sweet Lolly
like I was a cherry in your mouth
tying knots with my tongue over the words
that hurt --
Honey, don't you want your lovely back?
and Babe, wasn't I a doll for you
when I wanted to be --
you're not going to abandon me
like a lolling Lol Stein
in this miserable sunshine, are you?
and you're a loser
but I still want to be a darling doll
for you anyway.
and it won't do -- it won't do --
if you don't want me anymore.(27/09/2017)
YOU ARE READING
THE OCEAN
Poetry'In the old days at home the Neverland had always begun to look a little dark and threatening by bedtime. Then unexplored patches arose in it and spread, black shadows moved about in them, the roar of the beasts of prey was quite different now, and...