Recipe

This is how I

Make a mojito

It is sweet

So watch how you go

Start with a glass

Long and tall

And get a jug

So it's easier to pour

Fill it with mint 

A handful is fine

A teaspoon of sugar and

The juice of a lime

I add the soda water now

But some do it last

Whatever your preference

Pour into the glass

Ideally over ice

Add 2 ounces of rum

No I don't garnish

I just down it in one

Be

I just hit the keys

To see what appears

Sometimes it is OK

Mostly it's queer

Think of word

Write it down

Think of another

With a similar sound

Or a funny pun

A hidden meaning

If that fails

Try whatever you are feeling

It has no rules

This anarchist prose

I just follow

Wherever it goes

No Pen

Striking twilight

I sit in front

Of a bright screen

And write

Eyes watering

I cannot switch off

Like that time at the supermarket

After I left hospital

Constant chattering

In my head and my teeth

The cola was too cold

So I cry

There is no follow-up plan

In the aisles I mutter

I cannot switch off

Dawn and taxis arrive

I fold into the seat

And shriek

Shut up!

Sixteen hundred

At sixteen hundred hours

The moon puts on their coat

Sits by the front door

And waits for the evening call

Looking out their window

They scoff

At the sun, lolling about

Like a dumb beach ball