GETTING WET

& I see us now, 50 years on,
naked on a pebble beach,
hand-in-hand
in our sagging body-sacks
hobbling into the sea
& smiling,
our few teeth
blue in the moon.

See our tattoos
shapeless blue with age.
I see our walnut arses
disappearing
beneath the waves.

 

 

 

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Niall Griffiths
Picture Nick Victor

 

 

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