We come of life
We want of death
We come of death
We want of life
~
We come of dark
We want of light
We come of light
We want of dark
~
We come of silence
We want of sound
We come of sound
We want of silence
~
We come of touch
We want of stone
We come of stone
We want of touch
~
We come of mind
We want of heart
We come from heart
We want of mind
~
We come of dumb
We want of deaf
We come of deaf
We want of dumb
~
We come of Ma
We want of Pa
We come of Pa
We want of Ma
~
We come of here
We want of there
We come of there
We want of here
~
She said so
said she
sure
she said
sure she said
so
said she
sure so
she said
Sure
Sleek
abysmal dancer witters on:
‘…got a Twitter, Andy tweeted. So,
I tweeted back. How we tittered.’
I looked out on the ragged garden:
taken a good winter battering, well
grazed by bold Sussex Hens
(the dog is indoors a lot of late).
My word mind lands on ‘Topiary’:
Sculpted hedgerow dinosaurs;
Gothic ramparts; all shapes phallic,
A racing car with driver, a duck,
Oh, and a family of elephants.
And nearly lost to reason I paused
And came to my senses.
The duties of the day press in:
Wake the dead, feed the head,
Clean up, sit up, sit down,
wash my feet, eat…
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