A love in verse

Doing Well

1995-05-02
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When I think of the parts I don’t play.

The minuscule oeuvre of my writing career

I look at you and the kids and shout “hey!

My fame and fortune are bloody well HERE”

I feel the home round me, my eyes see the street

I’m sat in the middle of real happiness.

No doubts: I’ve got it, give thanks, it’s complete

And in your soft kiss is all my success. 

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The World Must Yield

You say back to me, at the window, 

Fruitlessly breathing out the fag

Whose smoke blew back into the room...

Central Heating

My young love rests, hopefully sleeps

In the afternoon in Spring – she

Causes the cold bird to sing, she...