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13th November 2010
It was (recalling Patrick Jones)
- an everlasting -
skies forgetting that white
morphs into blue,
traffic's drift like swarming tufts of goldfish,
beneath us, almost - the cracks of brutal
yet tender concrete, the man who handed me a souvenir
nine years before - gratis; I set him free too, his face
like an envelope burning;
the mascot was eight years old,
though things change in time -
they really don’t,
a grandstand
made dizzy by bumblebees
disguised by automobiles,
standing there like my grandfather
all alone in the hospital corridor;
Dutch girls visit student nurse friends
next door -
Dutch girls who left us
at the Vicente Calderon,
alone in a hotel corridor.
Death has an easy job,
but must get real lonely
killing the beauty we find, even in concrete,
even in death itself
13th November 2010
It was (recalling Patrick Jones)
- an everlasting -
skies forgetting that white
morphs into blue,
traffic's drift like swarming tufts of goldfish,
beneath us, almost - the cracks of brutal
yet tender concrete, the man who handed me a souvenir
nine years before - gratis; I set him free too, his face
like an envelope burning;
the mascot was eight years old,
though things change in time -
they really don’t,
a grandstand
made dizzy by bumblebees
disguised by automobiles,
standing there like my grandfather
all alone in the hospital corridor;
Dutch girls visit student nurse friends
next door -
Dutch girls who left us
at the Vicente Calderon,
alone in a hotel corridor.
Death has an easy job,
but must get real lonely
killing the beauty we find, even in concrete,
even in death itself
John Doyle became a Mod again in the summer of 2017 to fight off his impending mid-life crisis; whether this has been a success remains to be seen. He has has two collections published to date, A Stirring at Dusk in 2017, and Songs for Boys Called Wendell Gomez in 2018, both on PSKI's Porch.
He is based in Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland. All he asks is that you leave your guns at the door and tie up your horses before your enter.
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