Burthens.

Although the skittish
ladies link arms
In alleys lit
only by the moon
And swivel heads in owl compasses
Inciting aggravations
By their circulations,
Only shreds of cardboard
squarely emballoon
Across their path, singing
A dark windscrape tarmac middle 8.
They pale: they bolt:
Blindly discoupling,
shrugging arm-in-arm
reins in false alarm,
Too stout to bear the weight
of petty fright