I need to lie
on my belly
ear to the ground
left
right
crick this crunchy neck
be beaten
on shoulders
by sun

This was, I recall,
a key component
of my religious practice
before agnostic tenets
locked my muscles
into
eternal
steel


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No Kidding

I was sat
reading Warhol's Interview
in a little park
round the corner from Love Lane
where I worked in the library

I wanted a cigarette
but I'd given up
so I had to ask this guy
nearby
who'd just been having
a row with his girlfriend

He said no
       quite firmly
and, I think,
therein is a lesson for all of us


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