Fees $10 For Babble Poem by Mark Heathcote

Six before eighty what could it be
An introduction to a cemetery,
Or could it be a beauty pageant
Battling with leotards non-combatant
Or a lottery number partially recalled
Or a race all runners but two installed.

Six before eighty what could it be
Opposite cells in a prison block may be
A line of cattle for worming and branding
A graph on a map we're all misunderstanding
Getting further and further, further away
Numbers mean something I now formulae

Six before eighty could be warriors in battle
But here it is a call for poetry submissions
For "THEMA Literary Society" fees $10 for babble
Whatever you write is bound to give emissions
So I won't waste an envelope or a stamp
A postie at their door, yammering I've-got-writers-cramp.