18 October 2011
Neruda knew the Just Is
Neruda knew the Just Is
how it hangs
between clavicles and vowels
and illuminates the half cut city skyline
how it howls
and caws
how it sits
on a dead poets hill
and looks out
like a sentry
or an angel made of bricks
canals like slit
veins bleed
through the buildings
the tallest i
I've ever seen
blooming buds the shape of
satellite dishes
wishes
of a new age where the page
is a punch card and a key fob
10 October 2011
Richard rolls his rizla
Richard rolls
his rizla
carefully around the cut price duty free 50 gram
pouch
of Golden Virginia
£4.20 from his man he says
I ask about his Mrs
a sigh as he sinks
into the old
brickwork beneath the dying
hanging baskets
bone
cancer chemo blood
in her urine
"Marconi Rapier missiles"
falls from his
lips
in a rhythmic haze
a glimpse
of what he was
before
his rizla
carefully around the cut price duty free 50 gram
pouch
of Golden Virginia
£4.20 from his man he says
I ask about his Mrs
a sigh as he sinks
into the old
brickwork beneath the dying
hanging baskets
bone
cancer chemo blood
in her urine
"Marconi Rapier missiles"
falls from his
lips
in a rhythmic haze
a glimpse
of what he was
before
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