Monday, 13 March 2017

Reverse postcard

One strange thing that happened recently:
Dad's put speakers in the kitchen, connected to the TV.
I went to make a cup of tea,
A traumatised voice begged me not to

I read Alice Oswald's Falling Awake
Before falling asleep, and dreamt
How she might read it:
Thought you might like it.

I haven't booked train tickets to come and visit you,
I've been expending all my energy
Opposing Dad's speakers in notes
And writing protest poems.

I loaded up the browser just now
I went to buy them
A cup of tea
Begged me not to

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