01 April 2021
Welcome!
Come in, so good to see you. Come and hang
your coat up. Would you like a tea? Oh thank
you, nice. How comforting to hang my coat,
proceed to comfy chair, the tissues always
there, not for today, just there in case.
Get settled, settling down and letting slow
my pace, and loosen joints and settle in
the comfy place, the tea just cool enough
for me to hold the tumbler to my face.
And then look up, into th—
is that Nixon? Reagan? Barbones,
Haitian? Diablada, Java, Bali, Ngulu
Mwana, Boar and Spiderham?
That wretched, pantomiming horse?
Jim Carrey, Samuel Morse, what is that staring
up at me, blinking twos and threes?
"Where shall we begin?" it says, oh, scream—
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