Linocut

I asked you what you meant by that

You said I wasn’t saying anything

When I opened up my teeth and let it forth

It clambered out like an unseemly beast

Say push and push and pull and pull

Push and push and pull and pull

The never, never ending rope

The unrelenting wall

I never meant that, never meant a thing

The beat is howling, beast is howling

It wants to lick the palm of every man

Then, baying low, to bite off every hand

Say push…

What happens when you live alone with a parrot.