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Red over Blue
Young and lusty you run ahead
and my blood leaps in hot waves
as suddenly you flick up the hemline
of your skirt and before it falls
I glimpse two quivering cream lobes
divided by a skimp of black lace
just below the tramp stamp
in your coccyx.
Call me when I get home,
tell me what colour you’ve got on
and in my wife beater I’ll sweetmouth you
to orgasm from five thousand miles
over the phone.
from ‘Yankee Beach Girl’
After two bungled operations by the evil team of “surgeons” Pinky & Perky at Hurstwood Park, England, for his rare, terminal brain tumour, Brian Fogarty falls into the hands of the wicked, but smugly gormless, twin-setted and pearled London witch Doctor Shortcrass who, for her own murky purposes hoodwinks him into flying 5000 miles on a wild goose chase to Jacksonville, Florida, where he’s further experimented on in the clinic of world wonder Doctor Malyimpropa, a semi talking walrus who, for the next three months, subjects the already deeply traumatised author to high doses of Proton Beam radiotherapy.
Resting up after each day’s ordeal in his loft at Third & Main run by the delightful and enigmatic M.L, he distracts himself as best he can from the pain by writing these 85 poems, some of which he performed at the famous Three Layers Coffee House in the historic Springfield district of Jacksonville.
This is Brian Fogarty writing for his life; once again lumbered with a chronic, life-threatening illness he refuses to turn his face to the wall but instead turns his pain and anguish into truly great art with these amazing poems in an all out final bid to outrun his fate before the tumour (the “moon” in his head) paralyses and destroys him.