The Chasing Iamb

Mangoes 

mangoes are not cigarettes
    mangoes are fleshy skinful passionate fruits
        mangoes are hungry to be sucked
            mangoes are glad to be stuck in the teeth
                mangoes like slush & kissing

                    mangoes are not cigarettes
                        mangoes are idiosyncratic seasonal seducers
                            mangoes are worse than adams apple
                                mangoes are what parents & parliaments warn against
                                    mangoes like making rude noises

                                        mangoes are not cigarettes
                                    mangoes are greedy delicious tongueteasers
                                mangoes are violently soft
                            mangoes are fibrous intestinal lovebites
                        mangoes like beginning once again

                    mangoes are not cigarettes
                mangoes are tangible sensual intelligence
            mangoes are debauched antisocialites
        mangoes are a positive good in the world
 mangoes like poetry

Richard Tipping