Cabbie Love

For Mike, Andy & Liz

ending with descartes
clocks the midnight taxi
black irish beauty spills
for fun and games
in cockney rhyming slang
this isn’t funny
this aborted fare
tumbling out the door
to fraternal city night
for lack of design
knock down drag out ride
still hears cans scrape behind
it must be so lovely
to work with the wife