Crazy copper Colin
Caught curious cleaner Chris
Coveting considerable cash
Conning curry cook, Codom Coxijee.
Creatively, Chris, clever cad, conman
Composed convincing correspondence.
Canadian credit companies
Casually converted
Colossal crates containing currency.

Crazy copper Colin
Catching curious cleaner Chris
Consuming costly cavier,
Casually combated
Causing
Considerable culinary confusion.
Caterers, cooks, cuddly courting couples,
Clearing complete corner
Continued clapping constantly.

Confined,
Cool, clever Chris
Considered
“Can crocodiles crunch corduroyed cardigans?
Can castrated cattle copulate copiously?
Can corrugated cabins correctly-constructed,
Create congenial comfort?
Can consuming crunchy corn crickets
Curtail colonic commotion?
Can curiosity cause cats catastrophic calamities?
Can corrective classes correct Chris?”

Claustrophobic conditions
Concentrated Chris’s contemplation.
Catching cogitative consumption,
Chris crawled curiously.
Cold cave corridors containing creepy creatures
Captured Chris’s consciousness.
Canteen cauliflower-constructed Castilian castles
Consumed cranial crevices
Colluding coldly
Creating comfortless caverns.

Chris cracked constantly.

Christmas cake caught Chris co-operating.
Crackers caused casual clapping.
Carole choir commenced contentedly.
Carter’s competitive crooning
Clear comforting canto
Covered conman cleaner’s crying.
Crimson cascaded Chris’s cut corpse
Completely coating camel-coloured carpet.

“Cost-cutting criterion causing cramped conditions,
Created clever Chris’s corpse!”
Contemplated copper Colin.

Crazy copper Colin
Considerately controlling composure,
Conveyed
Convincing
Condolences.


---Jib, 8.39 am, Huang Dao, China, 17 Aug 2001. From the novel, ‘Shaquilla’s Papers’. Shaquilla herself wrote this as a teenager, in response to a news item she saw on the telly.