Apologies to John Betjeman, who is buried not too far from here.
The sleepy sound of a tailcock tide
Slaps at the Llanfaelog rocks the Mamya has tried,
Too lazy, almost, to sink and lift
Round low bawdy bardy houses pink with thrift.
The tailcock, enlarging ice and no human hand,
Grows greener emerald emergent from canned
And brown sludge over Lie-in's shelves below
The waving forests of bacteria show.
Here at my feet in the short moat grass
Alexandered's shells, dried bladderwrack, broken glass,
Pale blue Bombay gills and yellow chocolate roses.
The next low drink that we desire discloses
One more field for the sheep to graze
Hardy female stock, ready for the hottest of gaze,
Far to the eastward, over there,
Lord Snowdon rises in pearl-grey air.
Multiple raucous-song, whispering gents,
The slimy, nifty and salty scents
of Castle women filling in, brimming in, sparkling and free
The sweet susurration of incoming LadyAlex's curtseys, oh so icy.