#2443 -- the greying and the sky dark

 

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the greying and the sky dark

the lion S

 

I’m at a table with the queen

with all the queen crew

now and then animated

good works

… very pleasant

 

the grey queen

gone as we know

but always just as with us

the deified king mother

a lot like Mary looking down

so many virgin births – a litter

and some may wish they were not born

 

but really she’s lovely

like in that Beatles’s song

‘gotta get a bellyful of wine’

 

I want to ask

‘how has the queen’s English been for you?

was that a lot of pressure?’

 

we have an engagement

but one mustn’t ask such things

…. fox paws in this dead presence

 

and not so much the off with their heads

as croquet and a horse sits well

just a regal wave of the hand

 

most of a monarch is death, you will know

and earlier a king, big bully

and now a king again to bury

 

because it is the grey queen

because she is the lion S

 

because we see them counting

in their blackbird pie

just where the cat may look