It was down to bone on bone
they said, but he shouldered on
as each year ground on the year before
until much to do was hard to reach
so he succumbed to the surgeon’s cut,
the incisive smile of an opening through which
to power-tool out the burnt-out roach
and get a fix on a nice new joint, easy as
dropping a reconditioned gearbox
into a revamped old Mustang,
having done the town, burnt some rubber
got the girl, and settled down.
We shouldn't personify inanimate objects It's patronising and they don't like it On my morning foreshore walk I met a stone, grey and worn like me but a curious shape and comfortable in my palm. Each
I follow the news but do not set the pace teach what I was taught without invention and hook my carriage to a steady train the Thursday in a busy week one well aware of precedent and protocol the univ
With the luxury of summer time I ride one of my bikes around the warren of dead ends in Omaha winding through the web of sandy walkways between holiday homes blank cubist structures and neo-hacienda m