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Mike Adam
Poems
May 2016
Give me your coat
1
give me your overcoat
Samuel Beckett
to wear over grandfather jacket
to keep out the wind that
furrowed your old face
to landscape
that took grandpas leg from
running, the trenches too much
for a sensitive man.
2
you gave your movie star jacket
and I cherish it.
your name escaped you in grief
and from losing everything at once
I barely pitied your bereavement.
that is why?
this lovely jacket
and the harsh winds that cull.
how little the care for paltry suffering,
the boy in the doorway, the cowering dog
and the end of today
revealing only tomorrow
Written by
Mike Adam
66/M/London England
(66/M/London England)
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