A poem / October 15 2006
La famille Beaufois and their original scribblings forced me into this so it’s not entirely my fault. Nor is it they who have entirely inspired me. Mostly it’s her, queenminx. So I felt I would be letting the side down rather if I didn’t indulge serious-wise, poetry-wise. It’s more of a song really and it doesn’t scan. But life’s like that.
Too Many Late Nights
So it goes…
My dormant brain still hasn’t found
The key for the ignition.
Maybe it will be like a fairytale:
As soon as you arrive
I will be awakened
As if from a legendary slumber.
The engine will start, foot on the accelerator,
Move up through the gears, into 3rd now
And suddenly the car roars like a fucking lion.
Wow, what a feeling!
The whole world speeding by as if it doesn’t exist.
You are so beautiful I can hardly look at you.
But you look at me.
And smile that sweet, toothy way you will
Just as the wind manages to deliver to me its simple message
Loud enough at last
As it crashes past my stupid ears.
We spit
Upon the blurry, shuffling people.
We show them eight, stiff, proud little English fingers
And four paws
As we tear along.
Everything rushing past,
All rushing past.
People so grey, I can hardly see them!
But in front: the horizon.
And on the horizon?
The sun.
The big, fat, sunny, funny old sun I miss so much.
And tied to the back of the car?
A red balloon –
A present from you to me.
And what thankful message have you written on my balloon?
You wrote this:
“David, I went to the cleaners
And I came back with my life.”
And what was the message the wind gave me?
It was this:
“Don’t stop.”
Laughing (and trying not to crash the car)
I realise something wonderful.
And it is so wonderful, I just keep saying it
Over and over again.
This is what I say:
Audrey, I lost the world,
But it didn’t lose me.
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3 comments on “A poem”
queenminx / October 15th, 2006 at 9:46 pm
If I were wearing waterproof mascara, I would be crying like a baby ! Damn these false eyelashes!
Napoleon Fantastic / October 16th, 2006 at 1:11 am
you genius
Jo Beaufoix / October 16th, 2006 at 9:39 pm
Keep writing, be it for pets or people.
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