
With coat so shy, like half-veiled hill,
When all at once I saw men bowed
A storm of gold with silver frills;
Beside iced cakes , I saw the bees
Muttering and prancing with the fleas
Deciduous as the jars that whine
Like ankles bought on my E-bay
They stretched on Ted Hughes fishing lines
They were the bargain of the day:
Ten thousand, awesome, happen-stand,
Bossing the Man, who has no chance
The graves beside them nightly bounced, but they
Out-fled the ducking leaves to plead
A poet could not be shut dry
In such a wanton timpani!
I raved—and raved—and little taught
What stealth the throw to me had brought:
For oft, when as I grouch and sigh
To chimpanzee or monkey glued,
They crash with bluebottle and with fly
Tea a mix of cold and shrewd;
And then I start to pay my bills
For today, that’s all my thrills
