Tuesday, 3 March 2009

Harold's Bookshop


Sat before and apple-mac, the figures scrolling past
a loss-and-profit masterpiece he’s lashing to the mast
of the bookshop Alexandria, sailing in the lea
of a bowling-ball recession in a skittle-laden sea.

A numeric metamorphosis in on the books, he thinks
jettison the Blighton’s first, before the bookshop sinks
sailing into tax years with a cellar full of dust
holler, Mr. Waterman, before the shop goes bust!




6 comments:

aims said...

Oh right! It's that time of the year again isn't it!

Harold doesn't have to worry about money though right? Just doing the books ......

Rachel Green said...

he has to make the shop *look* viable.

BT said...

Poor old Enid! Into the trash she goes. Harold looks a bit fraught..

Rachel Green said...

Not at his best at tax return time!

Unknown said...

*chuckles* Finagling books much be harder than just doing books. Poor Harold.

Rachel Green said...

Finagling them the wrong way, too!