I feel sick from them the way I do from
MMXXV
I feel sick
from them
the way I do from
mother's milk -
it hasn't gone down for me
in about forty years.
That day
I woke up
in someone else's place
and remembered,
how I lost
myself along the
way.
Taking a ticket
for the train from
King's Cross
at a quarter to
eight
I arrived
almost
on time:
passengers
shoved
with elbows
at the entrance
and in the vestibule
crushed each other's
feet.
And you sat
in the compartment
and quietly
cried,
and the tears
on your face
crawled,
like drunk mice.
They fell,
smashed,
Just hear
us!
And quietly
hanged themselves
by their tails
with their own mute
questions.
I hid
behind a book
my
fake
faces -
this is the finale
with no monologue -
On the platform
I did
notice
a Dancing
God,
he wasn't looking
at me.
Silence.
The knock of wheels.
The road.