Dorothy Nimmo
A Photo of Roger
He drapes himself over his mother, says, No.
We just want him to behave himself,
to be a good boy. Our mouths are set,
we bribe, coax, threaten but he can't behave himself,
he has too much sense of himself
that he mustn't betray if it's to come to good.
In this space full of images of people
dressed up as people he takes himself away,
at the end of his tether: "What I am going to do now
I'm going down to the field, with my tractor.
I'm going down to bring the cows in,
That's what I'm going to do
His self (his true self, full of pain and fear,
sensitive and self-centred as it must be)
is no good to us; he moves away into his own space,
abandons us and our own selves are full of pain and fear,
sensitive and self-centred as they must be.
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