Thoughts on the Night Bus From Liverpool Street

Prepare for re-entry. A land of plenty to say.  
The law of supply and demand pulsates
with the swollen attendance in the way
of a meeting with Clapham dinner-plates.

Inverted goldfish bowl. Beached submarine.
Disparate refuge for the nearly-home.
Hinders Cinderella. Journeys with Céline,
Quit sulking, Culkin. Spend time on your own.

Water off MacNeice's Mac on Camberwell Green.
Faute de mieux I'll take the first Dior.
Napolean bottle. Judgemental Josephines.
Blücher blurts out da before d’accord.

Pink Panther's panzer. Bono's monorail.
God doesn't play with mice, maestro.
Top Cat's top hat, tails and nails.
Given up. Gone fishing for Godot.

De Béarn and Du Barry are woebegone.
The Thelma and Louise of antifreeze.
Class and class alike keep marching on
but I, conductor, do not make the squeeze.