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the first time we met
I loved her face
but I fancied her legs
and I know that’s
sexist and objectification
but we’ve been
married for thirty two years
so who cares
what’s with this whole twenty
first century internet
thing about having followers,
I mean I feel like a stalker
rather write detective fiction
than poetry but I wouldn’t
be any good at it, and what’s
the difference? she says
I loved her enough to marry her
stevie smith was the
greatest poet of her
age, but what’s her
age got to do with it
just recently discovered
   christina rossetti on a second
hand book stall
  down the market there were
others shouting their wares so much louder,
   but who cares
use a stick since my stroke
approximately four years
ago it was when I last ran for a
bus, but I don’t miss it
aren’t as many second hand
bookshops on the charing cross road as
there were when I was younger
of course, so were they   ..
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