Percentage Macedonian
In Lounge Lizard Land her cup of Pimm's 
tumbles, and he's the busy pilot and navigator. 
Her lengthy bet on her heavy breather 
flourishes, devised as a caress, a gesture 
pointing to the heaven that awaits - sweetheart, 
sack and ravage the vista - it's your 
privilege! Those pub-game visionaries 
with their dopey swing, always just 
missing the bonus bonus, and the free gift. 
The heart-break outfit boss 
doodles a trick map puzzle numeral - 
sober, you can focus it, but hit, 
you lapse - and one shot too many 
outfits these misfits with a blurring charm 
they try vainly to dine out on. 
He addresses the jug full of hock then 
senses the engine pitch rising to a shriek - 
his pulse pulsing - the apricot Comrade 
Lounge at thirty thousand feet, 
now she's basking in a madhouse hug - 



Pinball: that high-tech twitter digit tongue among the raw discourse of the bar.
Her slant is Magyar, each stroke a voodoo solution to the older members' boredom
freak grief mode, each hit so slick it bickers briefly with the target then
shatters the top kill record again and again, but in a mode so silky - no,
flaxen, like a thief whisper your nerves detect as heresy - his day-dream
bopping in time to the little bells, the swing children shrieking at the
shuffling hoons who populate this forecourt of paradise and roaring when the
rocket knocks the gong - hey, Fuckhead, do that again! 




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