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The Camden Market Tee Shirt
Joe Sephine Where are you Kew There is nothing to worry about Carry on In short Josie has been arrested Oh dear What has she done Nothing What happened We were wandering across Hyde Park When a couple of cops stopped us Why Because of Josie’s tee shirt Which one The Baader Meinhof one It […]
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The Happiness of my Sister
I always thought that Janet Had a poor taste in men They were mostly losers Looking for suitable mothers Or insipid pale drifters They came and went Until she met Sonny Who I disliked instantly He was flash and featureless And soon broke her heart I picked up the pieces as normal It was then […]
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Ursula War
I can remember Ursula Selling lavender in the market She was an orphan Who sold all she could grow And then the war started Our country was invaded I did not see her for five years Until I met her in Köln Working in a cafe Near the railway station We met occasionally after that […]
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Flood Southampton
I used to know a girl named Flood Which was an unusual name She soon told me That it was a shortened version Of her second name Flood Southampton She had chosen not to use Her birth name For reasons unknown
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Tabitha the Cat
I hate our fucking cat Joe Why Because she is a selfish bitch She is normally okay with me I could hear her howling from my room And went down to let her in But she was not there I was standing there stark fucking naked It was cold and I was freezing I had […]
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Education
I was sent to a fine university To study nothingness Circles were my specialised field
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Vacant Mother
When my mother was raped She became pregnant And tried to abort me But the doctor was drunk Which scared her I have hated my mother since
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Samuel Beckett et Moi
I am flying to Amerika Which is quite stressful As I do not like flying I purchased three novels reissued Molloy Malone Dies The Unnamable These will pass the time Whilst I am in the air If my plane crashes Then time will not pass As it will cease to exist
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Bravo un film qui donne envie de lire le livre
We would like to film a selection of your poems Would you be able to translate them Yes but most of my poems are impossible to film Why Because dreams cannot be filmed
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The Roads to Freedom
There is locally an unmade road Dating from the last war That leads directly into the sea It is one of the many wartime roads That can be found along our coast These are the white freedom roads