Basic Hut Methodology

Ella O’Keefe

take your platform boots off

Kevin

you’ve killed a deer to make your point

but our tea and biscuit sensibilities

will cope

we forgive you

you’re charming!

hiding from your vanity

likening molten glass to tartiflette

in the fresh peat you hammer a sign

‘Not Hobbit-Town’ (it’s cute)

then later tell the production crew (sternly)

“this not aspirational! This is economical!”

Marxism 101 plaything

soliloquies about the means of production

while you go on dung safari

afterwards the gang pretends to piss in a bucket

you call the result a “manly amount”

150 years of Britain’s industrial history

at the bottom of a Hackney canal

which swallows your magnet with an erotic slurp

there you go all doe-eyed

banging on the shed roof

but we’re weary

of plumbing double entendre

Kevin and the engineer boil a kettle

“shall I play mother?”

that curve came from a tree

gun powder tamped into the trunk

a certain “massive quality”

boy with a simple dream

to own a patch of woodland

(where there’s a thing there’s a fence)

your friends show how they feel

by building a a straw effigy

and lighting it with flaming arrows