when you said you loved me
the sun
leapt out from behind st georges hall
and ran around town;
kissing younggirls’ faces
exposing fatmen’s braces
freeing birds & chasing flies
pulling hats down over eyes
making bobbies get undressed
barrowladies look their best
wayside winos sit and dream
hotdogmen to sell ice-cream
but when you said goodbye
i heard that the sun
had been runover
somewhere in castle street
by a busload of lovers
whom you have yet to meet