Goodbye, America
An old railroad loco
by the side of a lake
A shocked motel clerk
greets us with the words:
Sadat is dead!
Chocolate chip pancake
late breakfast.
I almost throw up.
Disused Olympics
ski slope. Snow at the top
of Mount Washington.
Hard porn on the motel TV
in Palisades Park, New Jersey.
Bumper to bumper
at night
empty when we r...
Friday 21st March 2025 11:05 pm
Niagara
Our one and only trip to America
in the Fall, almost forty-five
years ago. Rhode Island, Cape Cod,
Vermont, New Hampshire, Boston
... Niagara.
We drove through Buffalo
towards the falls, passing gaudy
'honeymoon hotels' boasting
the size of their water-beds.
The view from the US side
was impressive, yes, the little
tourist boat almost under
the cascade...
Friday 14th March 2025 8:27 pm
Alphabet, oops!
The AA, once first in the alphabet,
takes ages to answer distress calls.
When someone says AI
I say Ayee!
like a wounded Native American
in a curdled Sixties comic.
Now Microsoft is offering
to help me put words together.
I'm analogue, not digital,
and aware I'm being phased out.
Friday 17th January 2025 7:59 am
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