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Saturday 6 January 2024

Unsettled by awakenings

All the other stuff

Noise

Easily led and distracted

Unable to hear

The dismantled ticking of the clock


Or the regurgitations

Of your own intestinal canal


Then to make the moments longer

To hear the wood-saw in the distance

We bathe our toes

In rivers

And far away sub-tropical sands


As if the hour glass is the mirror

Of all that passes through our fingers

The dollars and the rand

The pebbles, the salted still sea water

Grand hotels and dingy basements

Cafes on the Sorbonne and the Strand


This is past stuff

Names with evocation which I land

Perhaps, yes, maybe it is only the pretentious

Which I really, yes, that I truly understand



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