The Man in the Moon: Anthology of Poems by Sam Cullingworth - HTML preview

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Family matters

 

You sit in the tunnel, you

have no legs.

What are you?

 

Brooding, I sit in the tube

waiting expectantly.

What am I?

 

Excited, we thrash in the convoluted

corridors, prematurely impatient.

What are we?

 

Suddenly, all hell breaks loose!

Pompeii erupts. You hold on with

no arms and legs, braced for the

tsunami.

 

I sit on the edge of my slippery seat,

seemingly impregnable. A tremor

shudders through my very being,

anticlimactic.

 

Not yet.Not yet.Hold the line!

We move as one, every nook and cranny,

nothing escapes our apoplexy.

We swim for our lives, jostling for

position.

 

We waited our whole lives for this.

Quick boys! Into the trench. Cleverly,

I hitch a ride on the bald heads of my !

companions, saving my energy for

the final push.

 

Darwinian awards left, right, and centre.

"Baldy" swims too low, and explodes

against the trench wall. "Kojak" breaks his

back, and "Mike Matozoa" loses

his head.

 

I wriggle out of trouble , straight

towards a bubble. "Easy as shelling

peas!" I ejaculated, as I impaled the

gelatinous mass with the same gusto

as a smouldering match

enters a marshmallow.

 

The plan was well conceived. I repeat

myself over and over again, conjugating

with nucleic aplomb, a fission mission.

Mate, it's "game over" for me, but for you

it's just starting. Good luck with that.