APART
(for Gary Stevenson)
let’s play chess
or set each other
some mathematical problems
take a logical approach
whilst the world falls
to pieces
billions of pieces
some of the pieces
truth be told, however,
now having
accumulated a
most gigantic size
perhaps we might
consider them in
their own right planets
greater
by far, than
our own little
Earth that just broke apart
INVESTMENT
(poem for Gary Stevenson)
I smile at you Gary
from the bottom of my pram
though I’m
not sure you would
bet on me
find me
a good investment
I think you
smile back
(though what do I know
about trust
and the people and
the world
out there that
awaits me)
you seem
a good soul, generous
smart, a good enough human
as humans would
appear
to go, not yet
done a risk analysis, calculated
the percentages
my future out there
moving past, looking in
pram, ship of state, all
the same to me now, feel
the germ
of an Odysseus (what
seas
to navigate?)
are you Achilles, Charybdis,
one of the Sirens,
figure of myth, truth and
shadow Homer of my future, just
stopping by for a
quick, blind, taste
of the future,
sublimely
quiet peep in.
poems 2 die for