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relax

make love in a stream

crawl like an ant[1] 

or swing in a tree

good god

exact a wondrous thing

your past is fist

unclench it with me

now now now

listen

I’ll share with you the secrets to express

wear terrible shirts

grow fat

learn to spit

pick flowers[2] 

don’t pay rent

swear in the street

oh! but we must have friends to dinner dear and read the papers…

suddenly I am old[3]

whatever you touch is already dead for that I am certain

muscles burn in the milky way

sleepwalk over sober childhood play

full of shit youth spits today

a wonder why

a waste time

we can magnet together[4] 

time

we will die here forever

we can all hold hands

and believe in the form

but the form is a question

take it

tape it in the dead of night

tape it once if you listen to fools

tape it twice if you’re a believer

tape it

conceal life forever

muscles burn in the milky way

sleepwalk over sober childhood play

full of shit[5] youth spits a new today

a wonder why

a waste of time

birth[6] 

death[7] 

breathe the space between[8] 

muscles burn[9] in the milky way

a wonder why

a waste of time

[1] Sylvia Plath (1981) Collected Poems: Faber & Faber

[2] Jenny Joseph(1992) Selected Poems: Bloodaxe Books – (1997) Extended Similes: Bloodaxe Books

[3] Jenny Joseph(1992) Selected Poems: Bloodaxe Books – (1997) Extended Similes: Bloodaxe Books

[4] U.A. Fanthorpe (2005) Collected Poems 1978-2003: Peterloo Poets

[5] Kerrie Hardie (2003) The Sky Didn’t Fall: Gallery Press

[6] IBid

[7] IBid

[8] Helen Dunmore (2001) Out of the Blue: Poems 1975-2001: Bloodaxe Books

[9] Kerrie Hardie (2003) The Sky Didn’t Fall: Gallery Press