5 November 2023
new ageing process
sad breasts
dogged with the literature
of infants and old men
sad brain
your folds and valleys
cradling sparks where voices intersect
sad face
eroded, averaged out and
hard to recognise from youth
yet inward bearing thoughts
bear just the same
incontinent self love
as this man does
who wishes he
could not start again
because the options terrify
a new sleek carcass animated
by the urge to sing new songs
in unintelligible languages
though he is assured
he will never need to think again