Important birth dates are
3 to 12
when you know
what friends are bringing
as gifts

at 16 when you want
only one to know
sweet sixteen

25 when you play up
with your wife
the time is nearing

to be up sooner after 50
when you are getting bulgy wullgy

At 75
darling where is my toothbrush
give it to me
ere I go and leave all alone

I may need it upstairs
come share with me
toothpaste fifty: fifty

beyond that age
only you be happy
anaesthesia

Goodbye
to the many faces of
Rickman...

Seagull
and Rasputin,
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
and lost but not lost Hitchhiker,
Diehard winter guest and
Sheriff of Robin's Hood;
the voice of God &
something the lord made;
Abeselom, the caterpillar
smoking
in private lives:
the close shave
of a demon barber,
Serverus Snape,
Mark Antony
and all good men
or by far, none.

Once a week I take a long walk from my home
To the land of the dead and lay flowers on top of your stone
For hours and hours I stay and I pray
Telling you I love you and I'll see you again someday
you were my everything you were my world
The love of my life my baby girl
I didn't see it coming it happened so fast
One second were driving and all of a sudden crash
Before we departed you looked at me and laughed
You said good by that you loved me then started to gasp
Before the police got there I knew that I was done

ARISE
fighting the dense thick dream troposphere
the wood panelling
the lush wide fenders and paint fleck
of a time woe begone
octane and omissions

shoes I remember lacing
thrown out
replace
when my age was
twenty/ thirty years
younger
and yet

I am still the same
grey eyed ghost
in the mirror