Peter Philpott, Just a Small Little Poem

oh to have

           a nice little lolly

& let it rattle

                ticking tocking tool

against my teeth

                 dental pleasure

to put me here

               equipped not with

a grey old pen

               a plastic penetralator

lock this moment here

                      not a real one

a poetic one

             whatever

that

     may be

its

    words

of

   course

clicking out

             what revenge?

then

     or message

this one

         little darling, this one

set in at twilight

                   hard frost

tonight

        crisp