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
EYES ONLY
wealth is quasar
wealth is
ball of frozen ammonia
titanic ringed would be
archetype of
liquid methane gas
wealth is the paradox out there
for your, my, our,
their
eyes only
wealth is ever spiralling
golden fractal pattern
is, as Blake did put it
universe of mystery
in a
grain of sand
TRILLIONS
give them
a pleasure
treasure island
beyond
their wildest dreams
self-
contained
far away
from the rest of us
where they can live out
their deepest aspirations
most intense fantasies
except
they do
not have any
witness their only joy
to be accumulation
primary accumulation
as they build skyscrapers
and mountains higher
than any
in the Himalayas
stacking trillions
of sea shells on the sea shore
poems 2 die for