A Good Sacking

I

Pray Americans come.
Booted. On. Now.
Sybil, wait: it is tea
when the biscuit broke
you like my uncle
John Ball, our
Chairman, took
calls from
Broadway to
Wimbledon.

2

By the walls: a horse.
And in exchange
gifts which
yield information.
Necessary. To this,
a hard something-
‘placed
In bakelite red’.
To personnel-to
me.

3

I shared a cab
once with Margot
Fonteyn.
Lovely legs.
I am thinking this as
the drawbridge
lifts on my good times
with Razzle and Inc.
So praise
God
a-men.

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