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