they
clamour by
– hours, days, weeks –
with no reason I can see, and
the merest modicum of free rhyme
even the slim routine hiccups, leaps; spilling
like last month’s grime from an overstuffed hoover bag
across my living room, to be unwittingly inhaled into my mind
life is measured more by cardboard tubes from used-up toilet rolls
unlikely tales, renewing old disappointments
unexpected entrances and exits
unwanted requests
than by real
time
©Jane Paterson Basil
you roamed my flat, lost, isolated
hiding from your years of shame and grime
I felt your pain, and yearned, inadequately, for change
last evening you went, invited, to my grandson’s gig
I hope you made a new friend or two
perhaps you went home late
with a smile on your face
today, everyone I see from my street view window
looks like you, walks like you
but isn’t
you
©Jane Paterson Basil
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