R.I.P.

First came the arthritic

seizure, followed by a

visual external decay.

Joint immobility, loss

of edge, a cancerous

pallor, rust in peace.

          Scissors.

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             / \
            O  O

Time Piece


     If history repeats itself,

  Then, now has an eternal

   Echo, therefore, the rote

    Recitation of repetition,

      Verbatim is both futile

     And therefore a totally

     Unnecessary exercise

  Because freely suspended

   Pendulums resist change

On their plane of oscillation

Which is why the grandfather

Clock on a See-Saw nothing

Upskirting Venus.


                                  *

           (

    Our crescent moon was a

    concave optic, suspended

    beneath a visible Venus in

   the twilighted sky, at sunset.


On the horizon, a ship at anchor

impersonated a perched village,

shimmering in a desert of darkness.


Lesser stars arrived and peered

deviously through perforations of

the celestial colander, because it

was officially by then, nightie time.



7:pm West Coast Sardinia

    23rd March 2023.

.                 Mare Nostrum


       Blue sky calms turquoise sea

        gulls perch on muted masts

         stainless steel furnishings

      reflect sunlight on motionless

waters of a meditating Mediterranean

.                  Self, Poet, Trait.


  On an extremely wet day in Mallow,

County Cork, Ireland, when the eaves

  were dropping, a conversation was

     overheard between a paranoid

       schizophrenic to his altered

            ego in a cracked mirror.

                          <>

  " [I] can’t live with myself because

  [YOU] gave me a split personality.


              Now, I don’t know if

          I am a [HE], [SHE], or [IT].


So, while [WE] are pluralised by [YOU],

    [THEY] are all talking about us “.

.                  Self, Poet, Trait,


  On an extremely wet day in Mallow,

County Cork, Ireland, when the eaves

  were dropping, a conversation was

     overheard between a paranoid

       schizophrenic to his altered

            ego in a cracked mirror.

                          <>

  " [I] can’t live with myself because

  [YOU] gave me a split personality.


              Now, I don’t know if

          I am a [HE], [SHE], or [IT].


So, while [WE] are pluralised by [YOU],

    [THEY] are all talking about us “.

.    Dr.[WHO] was meant to be

  at Aintree [WHEN[ Mr. [WHAT]

   won the grand national, but

he was no [WHERE] to be found

and nobody seems to know [WHY] ?