A Very Old Poem
Those long-necked
Ladies of Leisure
Drop dead
On queen-size bed spreads
Leaving us
Their husbands
Their cigarettes
Those long-necked
Ladies of Leisure
Drop dead
On queen-size bed spreads
Leaving us
Their husbands
Their cigarettes
As Eye sit
at McDonalds again
to wait for the shadow
of the roofline
to chase me away —
it’s here!
Good bye Beach
Eye will not even go to you
to say good bye —
I have loved you so
as you have soothed me
to no end but for the ending now —
I have transitioned into My New Life
to move away
to Thunder Bay
where I will carry you
in my heart
and know your rythms
to be my own.
Good bye Scraggly Apple
You hold 2 sprigs of life
but that is not why I’ve kept you:
You are beautiful in your death pose
and the birds I’ve loved
are your visitors.
I will miss you, maybe
on a rainy day
when I write from my new abode
in Thunder Bay
far away
from my backyard
friend.
Good bye house
Eye have been with you for ten years
You have served me well
I have found my voice
within your walls
and from you I have gazed
at the sea.
Eye will be leaving you now
for Thunder Bay
and my beautiful daughter Eliza
whose growing up I missed
even when she was here
with you for a delicate
frame of time.
Wherever Eye go now
Eye am saying Good Bye:
My daughter Eliza has invited me
to live in Thunder Bay —
she says there’s no rush
but for me there is —
Eye am no longer happy
in Nova Scotia —
my home Eye considered
since childhood.
Headed for My New Life
with my daughter Eye love
Eye will find My New Self
on the shore of Lake Superior
amongst the family of Eliza’s partner
Jonathan
Eye stand before the silver sheen
at my horizon of my dream
I ask myself about my life
and why I couldn’t be a wife —
The answer comes as if to say
You’ve had your gain
there is no pay —
God is God
Life is Life
continue on
within your strife
Today in the mail
Eye got a Divorce Certificate
dated July 22nd
(my lucky number)
butt now I don’t want
to go back to my house alone
and so I eek out the last of the sun
here at McDonald’s
Am Eye becoming
a fixture at McDonald’s?
I’ve consumed four large decafs
so far this morning
and now it’s lunchtime.
But the day is fine
with my back to the sun
and I am enjoying being
here amongst the vibrancy
of Barrington Bay.
