London Crossfigured

                  crossfigured  
                  creeping with trams

         and the artists on sundays
                                        in the summer  
   all ‘tracking Nature’
                               in the suburbs

             It
                could have been anyplace  
                         but it wasn’t
                              It was
                                       London

                                                and when someone shouted over

that they had got a model

                                  I ran out across the court

                     but then
                                 when the model started taking off
                her clothes
                                 there was nothing underneath
                                                                           I mean to say  
    she took off her shoes
                                     and found no feet  
                  took off her top
                                          and found no tit
                                                under it
                  and I must say she did look
                                                          a bit
                                                                ASTOUNDED
                         just standing there
                              looking down
                        at where her legs were
                                                         not

         But so very carefully then
                                                she put her clothes back on  
and as soon as she was dressed again
                                                      completely
                      she was completely
                                                 all right

                Do it again! cried someone
                                                       rushing for his easel

                But she was afraid to

                                      
                                           and gave up modelling  


            and forever after

                                               
                         slept in her clothes