Monday, 5 November 2012

POEM: 'In A Cheap Suit'

Your deathly witch voice turns me on,/ Conversing through the speakers in tongues/ As I crawl from the coffee to the cigarettes./ Smoke haven is a safer place/ Than the grey real world bleached just past the window./ Travel from the Chelsea to the grave/ Pay no toll, saint, pay no toll./ All the muses stare at the empty page/ Nothing to smudge, left hand is still./ Crawl down to the bar to fall down./ Hank Williams plays softly/ All the answers in three crackled minutes./ Time at the bar/ As my corpse quits, in a cheap suit.

No comments: