Funny thing how fame creates

wonderful graves for the departed

most of my dead relatives

ended up in the shadow of Heathrow

humble souls

fame like the aircraft passing them by

while drinks were prepared in the sky

below the ground nothing much changes

except what God rearranges.

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The hallway was littered

pizza curry menus a smoorgasbord

a smell as of cats

the stairlift absent

perched atop the incline

and at the top finally

Bernard was upright in his chair

as per usual, but absent

wrung out of life

one hand caressing the carpet.

A sergeant first on the scene

had distractedly pressed the mouse

on the cavernous desk

life went o...

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if you stand quite still

you see the bleakness of someone dying

as the sun goes down

on a life bonded to your own

and you feel the fragile support

like an anchor wrenching as the ship of souls

breaks free of its moorings on the slender earth

and you watch

as your own downtrodden hope leaves you

like the spirit of unformed breath.

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The babies keep coming

coming

into the world

petals opening disgorging

disgorging.

Mouths to feed

feeding feeding

milk flowing.

They pile up

statistics

scream and kick

another matter of pride

to show off.

Tick one more box

box ticked move on

over the horizon the

petals are pulsing

and absorbing

disgorging.

The world blinks and is missed

w...

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