Irene and Bert Re-Arrange the Furniture (A Mantovani Interlude)

Workers’ Playtime, bread and jam,
Mantovani, radiogram,
Pause to wonder who I am.

I’m the boy who listens to Irene and Bert
Rearranging the furniture,
Especially to Bert rearranging my Mam.

Mantovani, full and round,
Far too soft to drown the sound of breaking things
As Irene and Bert stiff arm dance
To Mantovani’s luscious strings.

Workers’ Playtime, bread and jam,
Mantovani, bam, bam, bam.

Then the silence, radio hissing,
Me asleep now gently pissing
On my dreams
Again.