So, another day of it.
The clock an instrument that ****** you
with its skeletal finger,
and now the night crawls up, covers
the town before dinner, the cold
licking your skin the way it can
every October.
You haven’t been yourself.
You’ve been stumbling,
legs like lead pipes, head
pulsating, unmissable signal.
Stand -
a conker crack scurries
across the skull.
Sit -
pulse in ear, gut gurgling
just as a long-blocked sink.
Sleep is a taste of petrol,
appetite so far gone
you expect postcards.
But at least the night crawls up,
delicately, coldly.
Oct 8, 2018
Oct 8, 2018 at 4:46 PM UTC
So, another day of it.
The clock an instrument that ****** you
with its skeletal finger,
and now the night crawls up, covers
the town before dinner, the cold
licking your skin the way it can
every October.
You haven’t been yourself.
You’ve been stumbling,
legs like lead pipes, head
pulsating, unmissable signal.
Stand -
a conker crack scurries
across the skull.
Sit -
pulse in ear, gut gurgling
just as a long-blocked sink.
Sleep is a taste of petrol,
appetite so far gone
you expect postcards.
But at least the night crawls up,
delicately, coldly.
Written: October 2018.
Explanation: A poem written in my own time for university - a rough attempt of a pastiche of TS Eliot's work. Comments welcome. A link to my Facebook writing page can be found on my HP home page.
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