The Space Ship Shrink

curls round corners
in a delicious dash of speed.
Almost on the road, wheels,
tucked up sideways. Flashes
of lights spin inches too high.
Did you read the highway code?
.
You imply you are a space captain,
you've half closed eyes that sideways
crawl the width of your cheekbone. Flash!
it's fascination peculiar -
.
impossible not to watch:
not to hear the psychic energy crash
the light barrier. When you're gone
every thought of you is tainted
with wry amusement.
.
Watch: in a swirl of Satan black.
The psychiatrist’s coat moves; reverses,
a vampires cloak. Space men invoke a
conplex world of simple pleasure. The
United Confederation of Planets
holds its secrets from the οἱ πολλοί!
.
It's almost too much – yet I can
go to bed, shut eyes and leave
you there - beyond the dark.
The half seen flash - snap!
.
Outside the house the space ship
lifts, turns and escalates
away never turns from the dead end
as it drifts into space.

*οἱ πολλοί = hoi polloi