This new blog is for ranting, writing, and righting..
Poem, sorry about this (actually, not sorry) for my Lovely Man
Dining Room
There’s a dead man in the dining room, mother
His mouth is open and he’s so dreadfully yellow
Did you know he was going to be there?
I knew, and not, and it’s still a surprise that anyone could be so still and quiet
There’s a dead man in our dining room, mother
His hair is all uncombed and his pyjama trousers are wrinkled
But his t-shirt doesn’t have any food on the front, at least
And his hands are so pale and closed, his nails so clean
There’s a dead man in my dining room, mother
And he’s taking up the whole of one wall with his great electric bed
I will lay him flat, so that the undertakers men do not have to straighten him out
Before they put him in his cheap coffin and roll him away
There’s a dead man in a dining room, mother
Silent, alone, empty, gone,
And he’s mummified, skin like stretched parchment and dry paper
A cartoon corpse
There’s a dead man in your dining room, mother
I hope you will make him welcome, as I cannot
And take his cold hand in your cold hand of bone
And lead him into the light of a new life
December 7th 2019