Ralph Hawkins
Daily
across the green & walking
towards the scene out the
window down the street its
voice of voices. Son your
sums are to be done. Rain
in the distance (shrews &
leopards, not true) people
too. The addition not of
facts but things, to run
across, rub out, names.
Do you know a turnip from
a parsnip or a swede from
a fiord, a ria or the love-
liness of Mozambique,
apparently the sky is 'aqua
blue', and Dave said 'they've
got a revolution there'. So
what is what today, who is
who, mesmerised by the news
sky, things, orbs, planets,
chromo . . . & he spake up,
'Comrades' and I thought
and then remembered reading
on Doug's wall the word 'mooch'.
I did my memory sums once more,
felt followed, bought flowers,
wires (irons & tongs), stored
food, read about the cut-
throats, cut-backs and went
in and out the door once more.
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