Limassol Lions

Read the signs in Limassol:
German, Russian, English, Dutch -
random spellings promising much.
Leather, watches, jewels and furs
and late at night she shows you hers.

Read the signs in purple neon:
dancing, stripping, sex and such -
offering love that costs too much.
Talk for hours, buy lurid drinks
her made-up face hides what she thinks.

Read the signs in Sunday’s mirror,
bloodshot, bruised and quite ashamed,
last night’s lion harshly tamed.
Later on at half-past ten,
Lenny prowls the bush again.