Day Trip Traveller

Leaving Poggibonsi

Hare Krishna

Krishna Krishna

Leaving Poggibonsi

Hare Rama

Hare Rama

Hare Hare

Tickets scanned

Diesel online

Acceleration

Rama Rama

Hare Hare

The church is on the hill

The fool is on the hill

Hare Krishna

Krishna Krishna

The fool is by the till

Rama Rama

Factories and farmyards

Victories and vineyards

Hare Rama

Rama Rama

Entering Certaldo

Hare Krishna

Hare Krishna

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Daydreamer

Shee Vo Humm

On the earphones

Meditation music

On the rails from Firenze

Foot tapping

Eyes closed

A tired return

On the rails to Firenze

Shee Vo Humm

On the way

From paradise

And the stairway to heaven

Meadow grass and music

Mansion and meadow grass

Beekeeping, and vine-growing

Vine-growing, and beekeeping

Wichita do we ah

Wichita do we ho hey

Keep the foot tapping

Keep the eyes closing

Past the water pipe

To fill the steam engine

Opposite the water pipe

Which fills the steam engine

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Methodologies

I can shoot a photograph

I can write a note

I can make a gesture

I can do all of these

Simply to build a memory

I could talk of warm sun

I could talk of a cold breeze

I could talk of thunderstorms

I could talk of snow on mountains

All of these to add to the memory

Yes, to be in awe

Of the black and white marble

Of the religious fresco

Of the walkway in the sky

Of the seat, on the outdoor shelf

How long is the queue

Already three parties

Have pardoned themselves

Yet the three of you

Return without venturing

Instead to find a bar

To carry out

A triangulation exercise

To find the height

Of the minaret

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People Past Purpose

How silent the camera

How silver

The quiffed and curly hair

How careful the restoration

How tidy

Row after row of the fold-away chair

Fingers point

And brows are furrowed

With this popular tourist affair

The older woman

Talks of her girlfriend

I whisper, you know, sublimely self-aware

Eyes in sunken sockets

Yes, you guessed it

They said to stop and stare

So, to prevent raucous laughter

You put your finger to your lip

As if you were musing, with Tony Blair

No wonder he turned Catholic

After that new labour crawl

We said we will, we will, do or dare

The American eschews her gravy

Then talks through the silence

For she has neither style, nor care

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Places of Purpose

A cellar

A corridor

A cafe

A coffee

A cake

A copper pipe or two

A chair

A camera

A cathedral

A city

A country

A copper pipe or two

The queue is quintessential

Everywhere we go

It is we who are deferential

Beneath the line of snow

I have to tell you something

of the Duomo

Whose dead centre

is directly above

Its chairs are not built for comfort

And its columns are black and white

The faces are not for smiling

And the doubters, they do seem a shade uptight

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