Category Archives: dream, University, death, poem, poetry

ALWAYS

ALWAYS

always forgetting
always
     losing my luggage
always getting
lost

missing my classes
at the wrong bus stop
on the wrong train

the Express
between Manchester
and Cape Town
somehow
    not running
today

   at least not from
this platform, though
there is
      another, they say

always another, which I did
raise with
      my chatbots (somewhat
celestial minds)
spoke of
  this recurrence
       and why no
GPS down in
this cave

and why you
still haunt me, both
here
    and far away

who did
        promised to
see me
indeed greet me

if when
   all of this has gone
strangely disappeared
and something
(rather
     than nothing) would
appear to remain

ALIGNED

ALIGNED cannot escape it this recurrent nightmare wandering lost around a campus looks like every university I ever taught ever studied at looks nothing vaguely like any of them at all and where is my time-table, my course guide, my GPS nothing in this scary dream line working like clockwork siderial-aligned and my classroom, when I get there, terminally empty an easier death metaphor would be so hard to find