Cobblestones

London, UK

cobblestone does funny things to

your head

and the roads round London-town

go backwards, like there’s a

thousand things you’d never do even

if you made a list,

and checked it off as you might at

Christmas

Who’s to manage everything for

you when we depart?

There’s no room at poet’s corner

for the delivery you want,

take yourself over the top

and plunge through the Hippodrome,

(you’re your own circus sometimes)

that’s not really true

(well dyu have the time?)

stop thinking inside yourself

but to wander past the opera

house is twice as dangerous.

(even though just this one you

did go in)

stop yourself

“You’re one of us then”

that’s all-right

(it makes it all better then.

I suppose)

In the end

after

that glass

is finished

(pour me another)

strum up some more purported

goodness

pretend to write

be prepared to cower

(throw around some nonsense in case)

moisturise the truth

work out something

Summ’it new

‘Wiv ou all da bova’

some more reason

how do you encompass

cash some more valuables,

there’s nothing much like tomorrow –

is that your contribution?

or shall the lottery continue…

unabated

sapphire dreaming

oak panels

more history than your country knows,

this is your forgotten land

this is your abandoned mother

The poetry of colonial refuse

diaspora I claim Armenian

my rejected self

on the ashes of those filed

(on the ashes of my children)

there we re-built Babylon

oh honey, why did we have to go

oh we

why

not so much a leaving anymore

not so much a nothing

as more to dissipate a counter-

intuition you feel that (culturally)

you might know is there.

(again)

allright to dream – Spinoza

rears his strange intrusive head

once more

Whose spleen am I?

tides are turning in your

brand new rambling

a little bit off…

what would they have had?

(and why?)

all you have to come up with ideas,

offer it a bit louder

and drop your coat over a puddle

(If she looks, you’re in)

I know you’re that kind of guy

- whenever you want to be

better, better

why bother really

that’s really your issues

interesting reporting

isn’t it/

he’s just difficult, he must know.

a little bit more

walk away

hot

2 days inanight

find it

read, recall

read

rest

cobblestones’ll do that to you…