Space Exists

I have a table as big as four tables

I have two velux sunlight roof windows

My stereo plays the iPhone playlist

It is a playroom

Where I don’t play half often enough

Yet I do believe

In this spring and summer

Of Coronavirus Lockdown

It could become my fragrant shelter

Especially if I am able to buy

A few big bunches of lilacs

Or several small vases of freesias

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Basis

Is it the tiredness which seeks me out
When I sit in the sunshine

The concentration which I need for reading lapses
As my head wobbles

I don’t write of solitude, not nearly so much
As I read of solitude

I am the driver, at the railway level crossing
Who waits in abeyance

And I quite care for that sunlit location
Halfway to nowhere

Yet in snatches I am fully cognisant of my place
In this floating fading world

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Unbelievable Facts

I was sat on a bar-stool, in Long Beach, California

It was October 17th, 1989

I ordered a beer, and asked the bartender

What’s this on the television

Oh he said, that’s an earthquake

We have them around these parts

I suppose not so so often in England

He served me the beer 

And moved on to his next customer

My colleague came to the bar

Look Ray, I said

The highway is bending and quivering

Ray ordered a beer

And asked did I want to eat

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Harder Facts

What is the point of continuing the struggle

Would it not be more comforting to be alone

And do I have to write it to even think it

Do I have to pour out the angst to get over the angst

What is it that inspires such opposition

What am I not being told

What must I discover for myself

Yes, there is heat and light and space

But wouldn't there be that anywhere

Because with such disregard for my ways

What is the purpose, where am I heading

I want to be in society, but I am not, not there

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Facts

Just on halfway, see the white line

Made with a roller and a bucket of lime

A groundsman, with a steady eye and gait

And perhaps a bowl of rolled out twine

Remember the school playing fields

Running tracks and cricket squares

Where precision, and circumference

Both came into play

Running in at a heck of a pace

Then stopping, precisely, as the ball was released

Or taking a leg-and-middle guard

Before tapping the willow, behind the crease

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