it changed when he got
a hand-me-down granada
with dark grease patches
marking up the headrests
he sat eyes fronta car man now
barking lazy
hand-me-down racisms
like he thought
he had found
doing
bitesize
lazy man
sick note
gardening
out on the blockpaved front
waiting for the artists
& the poets
& the dissident novelists
to stop by
& discuss ezras trangresions
& rothkos unfinished book
but they all playing it
close to the chest today
we can hold the fort then
an outsider enclave
staining paper
our way
free from the glare
from abebooks.co.uk
when we wake up lazy without deadlines
and eyebags and yawns hold no matter
we
thumb-check smart phones
for
news of fresh dead
and instead find
an airliner has vanished from the near east sky
and
there
is
almost no noise
outside the window here at all
and
when one of us gets up to make coffee
the
monster-cat comes in purring and looking and padding
his tail a question mark of fur
and
he perches on side tables
wide eyed
and
as creepy as he can
so
we
sip
the coffee
and gaze at the haze of late dawn
coming blue-grey round the curtains
and
there
is only a few sheets of toilet paper left
in the bathroom
so
we
plan
small shopping
and nice meals
for
a
lazy
day
