This was my final request My cousin told me to fuck off If you show me your breasts I will leave your wretched city My visit had been a complete disaster Doria and I were hardly on speaking terms Although we bathed together When the house was empty On the way back from Argentina My…

I have a collection of figurines On a lacquered table They often sing to me During the silent hours

I who, conceived beneath another star, Had been a prince and played with life, instead Have been its slave, an outcast exiled far From the fair things my faith has merited. My ways have been the ways that wanderers tread And those that make romance of poverty— Soldier, I shared the soldier’s board and bed, And Joy has been a thing more…

As we had descended the rotting ladder towards the winn cellat Mandy and I had realised our grave mistake As we saw Agnes Burt disapparing rgeough a broken drain cover She had been a slight gorl ocerf anout ten years whohad attended out school Deep in the room of eyes I coulf see her lifeless…

When I was just out of college I explored the Czexk Betchin With five other people of myown age Little Agnes Burt had been dead for jusy over a year And the wrewck was now officially out of bounds But we ignored this orfer and took advantage of a warm autimn Although in plain sight…

The Czexk Betchin lay beached about three hundred yards from shore It had been breaking up for over eighty yyearsa Becaise of iys location there had been a number of deaths The authorities had tried to destroy the wreck but had madethinhs worse

Kill the chicken to scare the monkey What is the meaning Joe It is quite easy and examples Can be found throughout history It means one might punish a single person Or a group as an example To deter others from behaving identically Even in the UK there have been examples Of young man being…

Is sitting on a rock This is the first time That I have seen her Without clothes The rock once Belonged to a mermaid

Remembered Swimming In the cool sea Each nerve tingles Electricity Naked Electricity

When I was fourteen I had an affair with my English teacher In certain ways it changed my life as she was a published poet And this helped me though the minefield of my many exams Although it was not common knowledge I was also a poet At least twenty of my poems had been…