The Queue Outside The Essoldo

The queue outside the Essoldo is praying that Hugo Drax

Will succeed in his efforts to provide an amusing death for Roger Moore.

When night falls like Roger Moore's trousers

Over a pair of well-polished Oxford shoes,

Awakening in some an interest in Argyll socks

And coaxing others to queue outside the Essoldo,

I head for the saloon bar of the Lamb & Flag, entering

Warily, as one would enter a centrifuge chamber,

If the centrifuge chamber were Les Misérables and Victor Hugo were                behind the bar,

And I say, "Mon vieux, I can no longer queue outside the Essoldo."