Golden hair

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Golden hair

 

I remember

You now

We walked

From school

We couldn’t pay

The bus fare

Or at least

We used

the money

to play

the pinball

in Luigis

on the Square

listening

to the Supremes

on the Juke box

or maybe

the Blue Jeans

Sometimes

You’d hold

Me tight

Your eyes wide

So bright

And then laugh

And spin away

To jive

In that way

And look

At me again.

 

RAC

Walking from school

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The walk from school

 

Walking home

from school

with a friend.

She golden

wrinkled haired

laughed smiled

I remember

her green eyes

the same year

Sylvia Plath

died alone.

The gas oven.

Town gas.

And she walked

home from school

to find her mother

lying down there

on the kitchen floor.

And Jackie

Had gone too.

 

Blessed days

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A second hand
bookstall.
John Clare’s
Collected Poems
mint condition.
Unopened.
The spine unfolded.
Then a surprise
Ruth Benedicts
(my hero)
Race and Racism
from 1942.
Days like this are blessed.
Sitting now
in quietness
reading
familiar lines.

Gesture suicide

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Gesture suicide

(in memory of Orlando and all atrocities)

 

Lets not confuse

Terrorism

With that hopeless

Act

Of the man

who believes

he’s nobody

and decides

to undertake

an act

of such horror

that no one

will ever

forget

his name.

Gesture suicides

are about that,

just that.

So lets agree

not to call them

monsters

devils

or psychopaths.

Just men

who’ve come

to believe

that they

are nobodies

stuck in a world

of the nobody

And who act

In an absence

of good faith

to take lives

so that they

will be

remembered

for something

at least.

They act

in an absence

of goodness.

The mark

of the pathetic.

 

RAC

 

Memories and Messages

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Memories and messages

 

Another day

Another journey

Hills grey and laden

With mist.

The swallows flight

In the lane

Ahead of me

Brought you

Our friendship.

Into my thoughts

And the memory

Of our last talk

At the farm

Before you died

You were eighty

And the cancer

That had bitten

Hard into you

Had won its battle

I remember

You’d just disclosed

That you were abused

As a child

You knew

I was speaking

At a meeting

With those

Who care

For the young

The damaged

And abandoned

So I asked

What message

You’d want me to give

Work out of your

Heart with love

Not from your head alone

I asked whether

We are able

To teach

How to show

Compassion

You do it all the time

Apart from to yourself

Be kind to you

Don’t give it all away

Keep some behind

I’m constantly

Surprised

At the kindness

Of the body

To release

Small memories

In ways

That ease the pain

Of loss and the hardness

Of leavings.

Your message

Remains.

 

 

RAC