Party Pieces– a series of vignettes – Balloons
on Sheila Ash (India), 21/Jul/2018 03:02, 34 days ago
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Burst by boys to scare the girls and make them scream,Filled with water, or worse, to catapult the other gang,Twisted magically into dogs and ponies,Phalluses to solicit sniggles.Riotous drunken laughter drowns the DJas coupled pairs contort to pass themup and down, under and over to the lines end.No touching nowthe only rule.Ceiling hugging helium makes cheeky boys of grown menFits of squeaky voiced tear stained laughterStruggled suppressionEndless sobshis fairground prize floats off across the sea to Francea mother’s love no recompense for a child’s lost joyLet loose en masse, colour coded cries of protestBasketed tours fly majestically above Serengeti’s Maasai giraffesPlatforms for champagne proposals and parachute jumpsThe kaleidoscopic other worldliness of a flock of Hoppers at dusk© Sheila Ash, 2018ashramblings
