Alex Smith
Opportunities
The trees are still blue
and Paul Klee is dead.
Portraits – how I hate them.
Do I take life too seriously?
All happy families are boring
but each train in its own way
is quite shiny. This one is from Los Angeles.
There. I told you so, didn’t I – she wouldn’t be on it.
And it looks like there’s going to be another joke –
it’s always like this when it’s sultry, with couples,
hand in hand, taking their solitary way
through the glittering internet café.
You smoke? Birmingham is next
but I expect you’ve seen all that before.
I remember. Alabama was it…
it was all over the television anyhow.
But that was the 60s for you,
you could have found something different you know,
you had the opportunity. Oh come now,
don’t cry, don’t take life too seriously.
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