I Send You This Cadmium Red (John Berger And John Christie)

A train to an aeroplane to another train
A taxi to a door to another door
A lift to an upper floor
To a waiting room
Where relatives sat in silence
Where relatives sat in tears
You entered yet another room
Only for you only for you now

Bright blue Atlantic surf
Signature light of St Ives
No time for clothes to be discarded
Time having hardly been on your side
A step and a stride and a leap or dive
Swimming and smiling and laughing
The letters would say thank you
The actions would say love

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All The Blue Changes (No Man)

Where did I find you and how did I find you
What did you mean to me such that
Such that I should happily include you
Include you in my permanent collection
And now that you are so to speak as resident
I can tell my close friends all about you
About your background and your provenance
Your origins and your exceptional raison d'être

Giving up on beautiful and giving up on pain
Where did I find you and how did I find you
What on earth did you mean to me
What on earth did you see in me
Sunshine and rain so plain
Your wish to be with me
To rearrange and realign
The previous proposal stain
Beside the Machair
On those windblown beaches
To redistribute and reaffirm
Our closest furthest reaches

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Walk On The Wild Side (Lou Reed)

We spoke of Raglan Road and Grafton Street
Indeed a few years ago you and I walked
From the former to the latter on our way
To the Gresham Hotel down O’Connell Street
Where the men of the cloth wined and dined
Of course we looked into the cloisters
Of Trinity College where many years before
I had begun to lose myself and find myself

Found by talking with Professor PJ O’Reilly
Who asked if he may join me for dinner
Found by buying and then reading
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
In the airport departure lounge
Where also I spotted
The brothers and the sisters of the faith
Priests resplendent in velvet robes
And crocodile skin shoes
With nuns carrying their personalised
Versace leather handbags

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Daydream Believer (Monkees)

Would you like to come into my bed
Isn’t that what you always wanted
Please pick yourself up from my floor
For that you see is what I always wanted
From first sight to longer view
I said to myself yes why oh yes
From breaking light to morning dew
I thought to myself why yes oh how blessed

To slip together so easily
To lay there free and swell
Abroad on your breasts so eagerly
Such had the fires of fate to sell
In and out and to and fro
Our words no more than gasps
Up and down and back and forth
Oh how those lips of lust we clasped

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Let It Be (Beatles)

Sedum Palustre, Sedum Rotundifolium
Serums of ecstasies
Serums of saints and sinners
Sedums of successful procreation
Latin first and Latin last
Latin for lover’s communication
Lothario with his poems of pasts
Latin to the point of fornication

Let it be then let it be
The chosen words where it was ok
Let me see then let me see
The chosen words were encouraging
Yet not to be said again
No, no more those words to be spoken
Neither on the pillows nor the bed
Words of sex so even-handedly unopened

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