The clock says two.
So where are you?
Am I the protagonist?
Or antagonist?
I know you’ve worked on me
after your supposed degree.
You say you know what you’re doing.
So,
which point of view are you using?
You foreshadowed me
and left me
in the sea
with death imagery.
Forget your master’s degree
You’ve done a Hemingway
and forgot about me.
Well, fuck that.

Erm, never mind you.
I have been waiting a whole week
to meet my first love, Roger, and he’s not appeared.
I am in tears.

Pah! Pathetic!
I’ve killed someone. Poisoned
by hemlock
in the library with ladders
and am glad that
I will never be found out.

I am a version of Pantalaiman
and I’ve got no bloody Lyra to talk to.
I might as well read Sartre
and be done with it.

To hell with you all!
I’m already dead.
That’s a cert;
because she started writing in flaming medias res.
What a waste of my death.

I’m the magic realism protagonist.
The Merlinesque enchantress.
Who knows
that if she had of written my story
it would of gotten goddam published.

Night.

On the moor.

Ragged as you were.

I saw you

through the cracked window,

where my dead hand touched yours,

where my name was etched in three on the wooden desk.

Your dark long locks fought the wind,

like your soul.

Heathcliff.

MY Heathcliff.

You destroyed everything…..

Yes, I became a lady, yet,

I loved Edgar, not.

It was always you…

Your face I saw

when I tangled in flesh,

trying to make a hybrid us,

with the wrong man

You walk this earth without me, yet,

I walk with you.

In you.

I look into your eyes of pain,

and I weep,

until you return to me.

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Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me;
Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see
A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling strings
And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she sings.

In spite of myself, the insidious mastery of song
Betrays me back, till the heart of me weeps to belong
To the old Sunday evenings at home, with winter outside
And hymns in the cosy parlour, the tinkling piano our guide.

So now it is vain for the singer to burst into clamour
With the great black piano appassionato. The glamour
Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast
Down in the flood of remembrance, I weep like a child for the past.

Here comes

the medicine man,

With his glittering box of clefs

Like the ice cream lady

in the Odeon

Pass me a quaver

Care for a treble?

Like to try a madrigal?

Two for the price of one!

Want to taste

some harmony?

freshly made

this morning

Maestro,

be a love

and fetch some more octaves,

we’re running low….

Oh dear, this coke is a bit flat….

Medicine man

mediates

between your senses

and spirit.

Medicine man,

the combiner,

the diviner

With his sacred invisible tongue

Delicate as china

Speaking words,

without words

Expressing the inexpressible

After the silence…..

A deeper understanding,

how low can you go?

Let the cattle cry, ‘Death Row’

Rock-a-bye-baby-your-soul

Or RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE WITH ME!

Lay-lady-lay-as-the-wind-cries-Mary

Spread your patchwork blanket on the green

And picnic on the food of love

Eat the music

Give me excess of it

Hey, medicine man

Pass me another quaver!