The Magic Sponge
¶ 1
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Through rain drifting across floodlight beams
and smoke off the hotdog hut
from a corner by the Thames
¶ 2
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you can see through black metal railings
through the smog and instant snap of fag ash
a distant heap slumped on the floor.
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Who is it? Please not Houghton or Davies.
A medical phenomenon, our hopes to resurrect –
for all its flaws and holes in the argument –
¶ 4
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is the dank and rebounding beige air brick
with dabs of refreshment,
placebo brushes of renewal
¶ 5
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like a non-consensual splash on the bonce
at the font to appease an unknown devil or god.
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If you break your metatarsal
or have a problem metaphysical,
here’s a dab of water to the arm or head.
¶ 7
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Rainwater runs off
through all the drainage infrastructure
or cascades from an outflow pipe
and freezes in the night.
¶ 8
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You’re winded, distended, bloated,
fractured, strained or just not right.
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Something snapped; was it a twinge,
a strain, a pull or phantom twang,
¶ 10
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but through the rain and smoke and mist on all sides
as from a dry ice machine evacuating all
at the start of a meeting where dry ice was on,
but really not needed, no matter the break
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or convalescent years ahead,
what you need in the moment is a dab on the head.
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