
I saw the New World
It did not come from the sky
We built it ourselves
Copyright Francis Barker 2020

I saw the New World
It did not come from the sky
We built it ourselves
Copyright Francis Barker 2020

Fridays were special,
work was plentiful;
when the job centre found you.
Now just any other day —
yet blacker,
more dastardly,
that Friday feeling
banished forever
to that distant land
called happiness.
Gold fish in a bowl
Endless demented circling
Who’s the first to speak?
Copyright Francis Barker 2020

I remember you remember me remember when I lost my mind I remember it well making music making bread making money making my way downtown and then what and then the sun rave song and then we danced and then he kissed me poet for our times poet for hire poet for love poet wife […]
Grammar of Happiness — writing in north norfolk