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Wednesday 2 May 2018

poem based on recent experience


BROWN ENVELOPE

Is it malignant
or is it benign?
Is it a payment
or is it a fine?
What does it want?
What will it say?
What kind of bill
will it ask you to pay?
Is it a cheque
or a form to fill in?
Is it important
or fit for the bin?
Is it a statement
that says you're in debt?
Is it a promise
or is it a threat?
Is it the taxman
dispatching a note?
Is it the BNP
chasing your vote?
Is it results
from your cardiogram?
Is it momentous
or simply some spam?
Is it assurance
of legal indemnity?
Is it light hearted
or sent with solemnity?
Is it for speeding
or driving though red?
Is it your neighbour’s
or partner’s instead?
Is it a questionnaire
sent from Beirut?
Is it the council
engaged in dispute?
Is it a policeman
engaged in pursuit?
(Perhaps it’s that body-bag
stuffed in your boot...)

Yes pants will get soiled
and bricks will get shat
when you see a BROWN ENVELOPE
there on the mat.