reality is tv
Springwatch
Pointless
why go outside
when you can experience everything
sitting at the telly?
in the bin
is an avant-garde novel
it's where it belongs
it made no sense
I threw it out
in self-defence
without a doubt
it's hard enough
to make real sense
of anything
that's much less dense
than that strange book
hence it's new home
in the bin
in the bin
we don't drown
we float
drowning is a result of not floating
we can walk on water
if we have faith
in the water
in the walk
in the walker
knowing there is no walker
walk
water
faith
sink or swim
let's stay afloat
as long as we can
we may not make it to the other shore
never been this way before
so far out to sea
but this way lies work
and work earns enough
to feed a hungry man
maybe enough to send some back
across the North Channel
Wexford feels a long way away
Stranraer a million miles in the dark
of this journey
may the boat stay afloat
in these rough seas
and may we find refuge
and a journey's end
That was that
and this is this
and they're not the same
though born from the same womb
what was born is plain to see
but may not be so readily understood
this turns out to be different from that
thisnthat
who'd have thought
they'd turn out like that?
and so it ends
and so it goes on
I don't exist
existence exists
but doesn't know it exists
I am a part of existence
like the mountains
and the pebbles
but they don't exist either
except as temporary arrangements
of the singular existence
