Swimming pool eyes.

[Jerrybaldy]

Swimming pool eyes,
halos on the street lamps.
Hands in pocket bottoms
stuck in gum.
Tartan collar against
a chip wrapper and pale ale breeze.
A lucky bag of possibilities
on a paper plane flight.
Rain that stings like winter wasps.
Swastika sprayed on the barber's wall.
Swimming pool eyes,
Blakey foot falls.

Home
where cabbage scents
still fill the hall.
Gravy crusts the pan.
A cigarette burn on the third stair.
"Is that you?"

Bed.
Car lights sweep the ceiling.
Yesterday's books on the shelf.
Bedknobs and broomsticks
and an unkicked ball.
Faces appearing in curtain patterns.
Rain on the single pane
silver fish on the floor
hopes held in pyjamas.

[qimissung]

It's really good, Jerry, except for the really hopeless part.

[Jerrybaldy]

Seeing as it is Christmas and because I like you, qimmi, I have sprinkled some optimism on the hopeless bit :)

[qimissung]

Thank you, Jerry. Chocolate sprinkles would also be fine.:D