The vicar wets his whistle
with liquor from a hipflask.
He’s fraying at the edges;
his mask begins to slip.
Wendy said she saw the Devil
in a damp patch on the wall.
She cleans on Tuesday mornings—
knew his faith was wearing thin.
Down the local rec, her nephew
picks the clubhouse lock.
He’d no ingredients for Food Tech,
so now he’s doing glue.
Later, using misdirection,
and ramping up the pathos,
Wendy says she sees an angel
in graffiti on the wall—
a wounded angel.
Paint the room eggshell blue!
A soothing, gently cleansing colour scheme;
a liberal coat of eggshell blue.
Let the light in—imprison the
winter night’s whispering of vampires.
She’s got a lifetime’s worth of songs and
books and films and
photographs of those departed;
all of them amount to what?
Secrets of the universe are bound up in
Nothing—difficult to un-imagine;
is Nothing what they think it isn’t?
Fictitious, fretful child,
your mother’s only flaw
was to love you for all time;
she could never let you go.
She began to see the answers
to long-forgotten questions—
patterns in black mould
expanding on the wall.
Not being a man’s man,
the vicar does the best he can—
goes with Wendy’s nephew
to the local boxing club.
Wendy is a hit
on the psychiatric wing.
She sees the good in everyone,
and gets us all to sing.
And gets us all to sing…
Paint the room eggshell blue!
A soothing, gently cleansing colour scheme;
a liberal coat of eggshell blue.
Let the light in—imprison the
winter night’s whispering of vampires.
I’m quite fond of Christmas coffee—
cinnamon muffins, too,
though I’d settle for a cup of brick-red tea, and
a sharing of secrets with you.
Eastertime eggshell blue,
Eastertime eggshell blue,
Eastertime eggshell blue.
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