Whiteboard Scattergraph
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It was like that angst in the chest
you mentioned, but then it exploded.
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My ‘self’ was in a hundred fragments.
All I had was a bed and a skylight,
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a window on the incomprehensible.
Drifting off, I muddled cliffs and gardens:
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Was it West Bay, Lyme Regis or Sidmouth?
Football grounds merged: part Brunton Park,
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part Craven Cottage, part kickabout
at the old MK hockey stadium
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with Oxford United reserves –
or were they off duty cinema workers?
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About 12 0′ Clock, somehow scrambling up
for toast and a roll up, with a roll down
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whiteboard scattergraph of faults,
their points the day’s shielded stars
all isolated from their cause,
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it was like that angst in the chest again,
but then it broke. Now you’re out
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at this car park. ‘No fear’ and ‘One life: live it’
on the back of a Mitsubishi Warrior,
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deep azure ocean beneath wild camping grounds
picked up in the eyes and a blue O’Neill shirt.
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This new hope is tentative. Will there be enough
finding gaps between or augmenting major league
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prescription drugs, all the dietary limitations,
the social times for which you’re out of action?
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It was like that angst, but then it broke
from its containment, lost its physical presence
to all our winding rivers of memory,
took root in close family and distant friends.
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I can’t describe the feeling so say ‘fixed’
and ‘broken’, currents surging to a tsunami.
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I sometimes wish there was a sole conductor
to form a single melody from all our memories.
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