In A London Sink

Poetry

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In A London Sink*:

Tiny jet black beings in an old butler sink.

Offerings of pond weed and cat food are made

Ravenous apostrophes.

They eat, graze, hunt, repeat

Raw energy, propelling their tight round bodies forward 

Ever growing, rounder and rounder.

There’s an explosion of limbs

as the pimple consumes its tail.

It grows wide,

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