Author Archives: Damian Garside

AS HE MIGHT

AS HE MIGHT

was taught by a dapper man
who tried to
put a stopper on it
but try
as he might
just exuded brilliance

gave me wings taught
me how to fly but
you know how
we human beings

strive
for the ever higher,

become
what cannot be
contained

and other
self-defeating prophecy

AFTER

AFTER

after the armageddon
he took some
well-earnef rest

the loss in megatons
of millions
he could live with

his red-
line limit
up there in the billions

and who can say
today when
they brandish
superposition

death is a reality
and reality is death

no finding that
cockroach better
equipped to survive
nuclear
     winter, forever cancer

trade whatever for exchange
of consciousness

TARGET

TARGET

you talk the stealth
of first strike
they won’t
know we
are coming

and so we both fire
though no one is coming

this beautiful
death technology
such a
shame,
if put to waste

what use being born
with a price
on my head
target on
my back

and Einstein’equation
demanding final vindication

TABLE

TABLE

the Cheshire Cat
is laughing

first the image
    then the sound

and everybody jam-
bunned and ring
doughnutted around
the table

simultaneously think
eltromagnetic truth and
paradox
     of quantum theory

how
   if we accelerate particles
to speed of the sheer possible

the tea pot currently
hovering overhead

might be cajoled into
surrendering it secrets

something brewing in the air
right now
     time not

as secure as we
assumed it might be

clocks recognising this
gone wayward
      disintegrating

we did the Math to
work it out
                 got
a recurring decimal fractions
will never end

and most
imaginary or
imaginary numbers

BONE CHINA

BONE CHINA

was at sister Emily’s house
drinking chamomile tea
from fine bone China

the day felt paradisal
but in the air
talk of civil war

so she and I chatted about
brutality, death and slavery

saw this escaped prisoner
making his divine way
to her front door
across her garden pathway

much we hoped he had
in store for us, was
bleeding
     to tell us

leave us feeling in
the eternally ambiguous state
of hopeful, quietly
terrified,
     secret acolyte

BARBECUE

BARBECUE

the hyperdrive
you left
by the roadside

works very well
as a toaster and
barbacue

and if you take
two or more
of those purple
hernetically
cannistered tablets

you have no problem
with faster than light travel
from work
    to home and
vice versa
     or trip to pick up
eggs, milk and bread
at the Supermarket

taking a quick detour
around the Andromeda Galaxy
pausing for a brief latte
in one of
the great Cafe’s on Mars