Dada tooth fairy –
Travels very light these days ~
A silent payment.
Tag: Youth
Sleepies
Robots, Heroes, Tanks –
Carnage unprecedented ~
Small Man’s room, at rest.
Fluid
Her red wine stained lips –
Bringing back old memories ~
Have you been feeding?
C90
Favourite bootleg –
Well worn tape ~ lost long ago ~
Immortal online.
Uniform
Small Man’s first school day –
Shirt collar stiff on his neck ~
Teacher half my age.
Off Henry Street, Dublin, 1988
New shop: sells marbles –
Nervous look ~ a pioneer ~
So much passed since then.
Outlier
Mark the outlier –
Reading, learning, improving –
He’s biding his time.
Mark the outlier, not the
monkeys, rioting outside.
Relativity
Cigarettes ~ moments –
Blue smoke rising, time slowing ~
Now stored as rations.
Need to Know
Questions, more questions –
With Small Man on the swing-chair –
but why Dada? Why?
Some twenty questions later –
The wiser for answering.
Homework
His cold thin fingers –
Homework ~ then, paint small soldiers –
These little heroes.
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