Tony Walton Biography

I saw you yesterday in a yellow summer dress,
the color of high dosage diazepam, through the
rain streaked window of a familiar bar, as I walked by,
somewhere in the city,
...

In the stunned heat of
a day in July
A woman is leaning from
the fifth-floor window
...

I realize you are busy planting crops, fighting
typhoid, dysentery and various fevers,
not to mention Indians (they control gambling now!)
...

They come for you-
in old fashioned hats,
from where you don't know,
to f uck you hard against every wall
...

As I turn left off Oxford Street
cloaked in a low sky and shuffling
along with the other furrowed brows
...