Friday, 3 November 2017

NAVEL THEN NORTH TO DEATH



and
if i look into my navel
north of my slab flat feet
into 
the 
rosy dream place
of never

i see 
mythical india

gram parsons 
playing 
unplugged cosmic country
on a
white grand piano

gielgud and t e lawrence
sharing 
a wild 
arab charger

trying to get to
the world on time

and an impossible aching dawn

~

but
if i look straight ahead
thru the calendar wall
into realities hard overdrive

i see grandparents
younger than me
weeping air 
onto the guardians
6 across 

(five letters it says
 and they got a d from armageddon
 so it starts with a d
 'walking _____ ' it says
 'permanent state youre in')
  
between drone bombed 
council flat walls
orange desert dust
between their
newspapers
dry as bone pages

that could crumble 
at a stifled cough
or a childs 
distant bleak
sink estate cry

their hands
like sepia maps
hold chipped china cups
of warm 
bath tub gin

brewed by 
street angels
who gave up 
all gentle hope
in the devils
en suite
fleet street
madagascar
novotel




Image result for novotel

from accorhotels.com

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