Alex Malarkey-Brink -

owned a second-hand van

  From which he sold words.

In pizza boxes.

But Malarkey-Brink

  knew that copywriting

was just his way of _________.

And when his wit

  did desert over a dessert,

at Molly's inkling

he tore up that note book

  sold the van -

and came back.

With a phonebook, (his pillow, his cleft).

   Like he knew then, that even -

Eventually would come to rest.

So to Lincolnshire and a cattle farm.

  And to Lodging with Ether –

Soothing….bledding….palsied... toes ss

Up with the crows of an egg orchard

   he bought and sold wisely – truly -

independent advice in aromal tones

that echoed awhile. While

  the meat on the bones would provide -

his first memoir, of course.

Taking the puncture.

  and in his cheek

he took to the title of Alex Toulouse.

A second-chance man -

  with nothing to lose.

Alex Toulouse left us

With ink on his cheek –

  and a skip-hire business

On the Malarkey-Brink.