I forgot to write something down
On a piece of paper
Which I later swear I lost
Having mixed up the shopping list
with the poem to be sent away
So bemused in the aisle of the local supermarket
I tried to work out how to buy “mountain crags
bearded by mist and aging against a grey sky”
Meanwhile looking at my latest poem
Oranges
Bananas
Kiwis
Nick the Editor thinks William Carlos Williams
was better at doing fruit
Just as I hurry to an appointment I never made
to meet someone I don’t know.
Memory!!
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Malcolm Paul
Picture Kushal Poddar
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