TEA AND STRUMPETS
K.A. Corlett
White clarion flowers
Like trumpets
Carrion strumpets
Strumpet a word favoured
By the tight-assed
Church-going
Victorian nouveau-riche set
With Don Cherry collars,
And consequently absurd.
But Don would
Call a spade a spade--
He'd just say
Slut or whore
On the other hand,
Strumpets got class
They've got red dresses
Of crushed velvet
And
Little angels
That crouch in windows
Watch over them
In case one of them
Should fall
