Swoop by Fassbinder

Swoop by Fassbinder

The Highway Code in Rhyl
Is overlooked
And lovers
Of the over-cooked
Bend
Should descend
On Rhyl.

One Nil to the Lexus!
The honourable roadkill
It’s animal pelt
Poulticed to the radiator grille

‘That’s just the way it is.
Some things will never change’-

Sings the sales rep
Speeding to Bruce Hornsby
& The Range. Imagines the fender:
A bonnet caked in mange.
The nearest thing to ‘company’
He’ll get.
In his company car.

A kestrel coasts on thermals
Between Clywd clouds
And road-flanked Poplars
Waiting to swoop


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A Lexus
Refusing to move down
A gear. Caught out
Takes the corner at forty. Careers.
Slides. Then plunges.
A huge descent …

Overturned.
Crushed.At the foot of the cliffs.
Silent and static
Save a heavenwards pair
of offside spinning hubcaps
And Magic FM still
Playing:

“That’s just the way it is.
Some things will never change”.

A kestrel coasts on thermals
Between Clywd clouds
And road-flanked Poplars
Waiting to swoop
Waiting to swoop
Waiting to swoop
On Rhyl.

The Highway Code in Rhyl
Is overlooked
And lovers
Of the over-cooked
Bend
Should descend on Rhyl.