' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' 'More Tea Anyone? Poem by Dónall Dempsey

The newly
acquired parrot

re-runs
(in all its naked glory)

each intimate
moment

of thier love
making

(the night before
the night before) .

All the fireworks
of passion

all love's
racqous riot

of colours cascading
through the senses

all lust
here displayed

in all its
exotic plummage

before
(not one)

but both
sets of mother-in-laws

come to
visit.

They try to
shush it up
(all to no avail)

the parrot's
really enjoying it all.

*More tea...anyone? '