Three cheers for the Starvation Army

Staccato

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The smarmy Starvation
Army woman
broke the Bank
of New South Wales.
What she robbed was
full of snails.

The vault she smelt a
sardine-tin opener
pickled on Elba
full of smarmy
Starvation Army
women.

Her inner flames of
righteousness
dulled her eyes with a
greenish flicker
listening to the
money totter.

The Queen of the
People's Palace sat
on a caterpillar-
woven mat
eating well-
deserved sardeinza.

Dennis List