June 22, 2012

 

 

Hand in hand they stepped out of the hotel lift,

walking coyly through the foyer into the street,

where he hailed a taxi for her, and lightly kissed

her cheek, before returning inside to settle his

 bill and get on with his life.

Their paths never to cross again.

 

 

 

 

The impetuousness of youth.

The sharpness of the mind.

If only they could bottle it,

a million dollar business they would find.

 

 

 

 

June 20, 2012

 

 

Such front

Such bravado

All show

What a blow

 

 

 

 

Climb to dizzy heights

Soar in the great unknown

Keeping one foot firmly on the ground

In case your cover is blown

 

 

 

 

 

The ‘more than mi job’s worth’s’

The men to get past

Can be bought for a tenner

If it’s slipped to them fast

 

 

 

 

If he never had existed

if indeed, he’d never been born

Life would have been

less complicated

And between the two of them

she wouldn’t have been torn

 

 

 

 

 

She was unique to the

point of obscure, though

not without allure

 

 

 

 

Outsourced responsibility

Sub-let commitment

Second hand forgiveness

Mere peripheral gestures

All fragrance-free emotions

and a cop out

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A fantasy climax is

no just reward for

a phantom pregnancy

with no umbilical cord

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alarmed at her reflection

in the mirror, she decided

that the entire house not only

needed a complete refurbishment,

but also a much younger tenant

 

Mirror, mirror on the wall

Life’s been good – I’ve had a ball

 

Distressed at her increasing inability

to function, she decided

that her whole being

needed a safer environment

and fresh approach

 

Mirror, mirror on the wall

get me through to the curtain call

 

 

 

 

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