…Kerrackle
&
POp
Kodak caught the moment
Look! Say Cheese! Ugly
Your embarrassing neck
You now too can see
Appear in future times
Like Dr Who or Theda Bara
All it takes is
A blink of an eye
Like a pinprick second
Then magically
Scientifically
All the world is yours…
Birthdays, funerals, candles
Immortalised forever wrong
Stuck in sticky dust envelopes
Marked: ‘Audrey, what a treasure!
May, nineteen-seventy two.’
That was it, was it?
St
(ill heRe)
aRE
YoU
Errmm…?
(Mercury orbits
Sun tWo times Two)
…duNNo
Sun st.(a)irs lim(b)ps shuff les(s)
gropes…
Ascends
(pauses: carrion squirms)
remn(ants) ovum wilderbeast
biZarre crumpppled stiFFF
~
Cast off duds litter wet room
(cotton casuals, cheap fleeces, opal vest, timid boxers…)
forlorn mOwer man
(Wild One: Borneo)
Gazes B(l)anklet (at the) SCene
ConTemplating noTHing muSh
(sex, death, taxidermy…the usual)
…
me(an)while
down
b e l O W
(cacoph – onia: brakes out)
LapiDateDcrow
croaks (winged-flesh wound)
Fi(R)st prO-Christian offaRing
fakes IT like a
Can-cAn
Grimbeau 