the music gets really loud
I say quieten down,
floating's not my style
but I don't want to drown,

the waves get too rough
The surface slips away,
limbs that've had enough
in the depths she longs to stay

Dreams of hardened characters disrupt ritualised sleep.
Tough characters torment the inescapable life awake.
It's hard to live life without feeling it.

I am
drawn to the pictures

to
the new and the already-old

(to
the news and the already-told)

stories framed, set
rolling, rolling ...

maps and suits and flames -

and
the mother -

again

It's better for you to resign

None among them, past
UN Secretary Generals
Ever spoke on Libyan Invasion,
By US and NATO and
Syria and Iraq are included

And today I see a fox-face
on Antonio Guterres...
Just for Eukraine invasion
By Sir Putin of Russia