Monday, August 12, 2024

AAAREAGHAHYAH

 AAAREAGHAHYAH

I scream.

Possibly connecting to another place

Or time

As the scream streaks out

Of my silly old face

Am I channeling  an ancient saxon

Or some long dead celt?

Or does my scream go further down

The spine of ancestry?

Is it the scream of an unknown proto-chimpanzee?

Or of the first fish mad enough

To crawl up a beach?

Or have I given voice to

The old old slime mould

That cannot speak?

No, I’m just a stupid man.

Screaming at a comma on a computer screen

That won’t do what I want

To punctuate a message to

A hospital urology department.

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