A love in verse

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2016-10-13
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No I don’t tire of her smile

Her face is new each time I look

Why she is merry- in my book

A rare and unused word- no guile

Straight merriment she offers only

Given that, could I be lonely?


I often remember her image when

I’m down I easily recall

Her, powerful- though she was small-

She lifts me into life again.
And she is dead, supposedly-

She lives for many- especially me

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Growing Old

You feel beleaguered when you’re old

For what’s to come? Fuck all, you’d say

The last few sunsets slip away…

Old Brentford Home

I see you solo in the shadowy house

You move from room to room, you stroke a cat

You listen to a tape...