the gurgle of your laugh
is mouthwash
in the bathroom sink
charging across beach
like zips on coats
yours is red
breath ragged
a tyre with a puncture
but keep revving anyway
feet crash as bells
**** as waves
cheeks like the Japanese flag
raspberry-ripple drink
this fizzy petrol
makes us buzz
our vehicles rumbling
full of three-dollop ice-cream
rattle of matches
in my back pocket
hear the scratch-ffttth
as I let one go
lob it towards the sea
grab your hand
swirl in a circle
so we become smoke
swarming from incense sticks
then we go back
the way we came
over our xylophone footprints
if they could chime they would
me and you now froth
spilling down the side of a pint
dialogue luminous
as a blue margarita
ankles chatter together
ladder on your tights
and we sail in bathtubs
to where we’ve never been
wearing sunglasses shaped
like briquette-black hearts
Jun 4, 2015
Jun 4, 2015 at 4:40 PM UTC
the gurgle of your laugh
is mouthwash
in the bathroom sink
charging across beach
like zips on coats
yours is red
breath ragged
a tyre with a puncture
but keep revving anyway
feet crash as bells
**** as waves
cheeks like the Japanese flag
raspberry-ripple drink
this fizzy petrol
makes us buzz
our vehicles rumbling
full of three-dollop ice-cream
rattle of matches
in my back pocket
hear the scratch-ffttth
as I let one go
lob it towards the sea
grab your hand
swirl in a circle
so we become smoke
swarming from incense sticks
then we go back
the way we came
over our xylophone footprints
if they could chime they would
me and you now froth
spilling down the side of a pint
dialogue luminous
as a blue margarita
ankles chatter together
ladder on your tights
and we sail in bathtubs
to where we’ve never been
wearing sunglasses shaped
like briquette-black hearts
Written: June 2015.
Explanation: A poem written in my own time, not based on real events.
The poem was written without a great deal of thought, but deliberately contains unusual imagery.
The title is a line in the song 'Hiding Tonight' by Alex Turner, which featured on the soundtrack to the movie 'Submarine'. My poem is very partially (emphasis on 'partially') inspired by a scene in the movie in which this song plays.
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