31 May 2007

From the archives, part 1

Lost poetry office

I caught an ambulance to hospital
in search of a poetry support machine.

In Accident–Emergency
the groans of my suffering poetry
were stifled under plaster poem of Paris.

In Intensive Care
they prescribed a bypass or a change of heart
but could not get my ink to flow.

In Physiotherapy
the stretching, reaching, grasping
barely moved my limp and lifeless vowels.

So I went to Lost Property.
Said “I have lost my poetry.”
Was given a ticket.
Opus one two five.
Was told to wait.


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