a)
solitude
woo
chet baker do
almost blue
alone or alien
too
teacher asked-
what are you
kind of red
that goes
ah..
b)
all they ever
wanted
was your heart
to stick little
pins-in and laugh
now is that too
much to ask
for free
of course..
ii
a)
sunday morning and
they even messed
with the time..
b)
what is wrong with
colour
i wish to be
a sunflower or a
bright vermillion
dragon
with a flickering grey
tongue
with eyes
as dead as the ages
one toe raised
and a tail quivering
like a nightmare
before and always
you..
iii
a)
dark lily?
´tis the season to be
the bloodied rose..!
b)
we never celebrated halloween
it came across the ocean..
the vicar said it was sick
we burned revolutionary catholics-
we built effegies
and begged pennies
the nieghbours said o
eff off now-
but ate our baked potatoes
we had fire works and fire so
rockets and catherine wheels
named after crucified martyrs
roman fountains and jumping jacks
and second degree burns
the sirens lit the rainy night
sparkelers bright wrote
we sang,remember, remember
the fifth of november
gunpowder, treason and plot..
and drank hot
soup and that,pyramids
can´t recall what they did..
b)
at school we learned
of guy fawks
who tried to blow up
the houses of parliment
but was grassed up
he was hung drawn and quartered
and his ashes scattered at
the crossroads
his head upon a spike
on westminster bridge
or something
how times change..