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Tying my bike to the railings With excrement tugging at my tum, Taste of chlorine in my mouth Ears a flutter with high patched hum. Roll of towel and tatty trunks Tucked under left arm pit, Five pence thrust under blank glass screen, Ticket scrunched in boxers mit. Clatter down deafening stairwell In to drafty passage, Frantic disrobe to slam locker door In exchange for tight wrist message, Cold jump across the footbath, Then climb up slippery slope, To explode in to giant bathroom With no sign of taps or soap. Hesitate, then lonely leap In slow motion arc to blue As flashing life before ones eyes Leads to shock waves new, Icy surface on glowing skin Grips tight the shouting throat, Thrashing limbs and choking chest. Then blessed relief. afloat! Windmill progress to handrail, And struggle with knee and toe, Heaving roll and gasping breath, Body bent round in bow, To sprang up straight, tottering, Exhuberant, on- edge of pool, Adjust haphazard stringy shorts, Then bellow Tarzans call! aaaaaAAAAAAAagh! |