It is quite fitting that John lives On the station that he helped to save But I cannot visit him at present Due to the tight restrictions in place   Quite why is a complete mystery to me As even the simplest soul must realise That statues of gentle poets Are obviously immune to disease […]

Many years ago I took my wife To see a movie called Vanishing Point She particularly liked the desert scenes And purchased a motorbike next day Since then she has ridden her bike each day So that she could feel fully free And at one with herself and the road Which is a little unfortunate […]

When travelling on trains in France I often think of the sheep in the fields And of my mother country now so far away I think of purple apricot trees Heavy in the heat of a Provencal summer I think of my wife’s wet cunt Hidden under her striped shorts Perhaps I will photograph her […]

I was the astronaut the world forgot about Mission Control lost contact with me As I travelled in the shadows on the dark side of the moon They assumed that I had crashed and although a rescue craft was sent It ran out of fuel and had to return to Earth So that was that […]

Exactly fifty years ago I lay in my bed Watching the moon landing on television   Exactly ten years ago I lay in a field in Cornwall Watching the moon in all its moods   At present I am listening to music on my headphones But I am thinking about the moon

Whilst I was waiting at Avignon TGV I heard Erik Satie’s Gymnopedies being played on a piano The pianist who was missing some of the more difficult notes was waiting for a train with her cousin An American woman asked about the pianist and was told that her name was Texas Poem and that she […]

An Angel Visited Me Today An angel visited me today But I was not at home I was climbing an impossible mountain When the angel became aware of this fact She left me a message of joy Noting that I would come to no harm   Angel in a Mirror do you believe in angels […]

I have never touched the claws of a rapacious bird Or travelled from Edinburgh to Berwick on Tweed I have never read a Spanish newspaper Or worked with a chap called Steed That is the reason that I sleep naked I own some pairs of pyjamas And a few rather lost bed socks But I […]

Why are you so familiar to me Yet such a stranger I ask this question of myself Within my first waking hour I am on a train to Porto To attend the opening of a new park Which was constructed to my designs But I am unlikely to arrive on time As this train is […]

I was the youngest of six children And was the only boy We were all born within a period of ten years But I was always treated as the baby of the group Which I enjoyed a great deal as I was doted upon My sisters all had names beginning with M Martha Mary Marlene […]