The Job Interview - by
You’ve already admitted that you came unprepared.
You’ve already admitted that you need them
more than they need you.
You’ve already admitted that you came unprepared.
You’ve already admitted that you need them
more than they need you.
Built like a gorilla but less timid,
thick-fleshed, steak-coloured, with two
hieroglyphs in his face that mean
trouble,
Do you have the one
/ with that poem they read at the funeral
/ in that movie?…
The heid-bummer, prood wi a ryaltie o a shillin a ton
/ lik the hovein o the coals alow the hauch o…
Gave yet another lecture. God, I’m boring.
/ Said all the same old things I’ve said before
/ With touches of ‘however-ing’ and ‘therefore-ing’.
/ Dear…
Who can gauge our range or pace? Every woman, / a signal tower, an illusion, a ship bearing dead ahead.
It’s like painting / the Forth Bridge / without the fresh air / and fear / of drowning.
I originally wanted to be a witch
/ Sitting inside a Leiden jar
/ In the pathology museum.
/ My fallback application
/ Was to be one of…
(from the photo with the same title by Don McCullin)
/
/ A pipe fitter’s mate at the gates of dawn
/ Is wrenched from…
They are fermin the fower winds:
/ Five grey- stemmed daffodils
/ on the hill abuin Eynhallow
/ that whirlmagig air intil pouer.
/
/ Aa Simmerdim on Flotta…
All over the fish / and the knife that continues to work / and the marble slab / and her…
Week after week I watched the darlings growing
/ Like two strange children in an orphan home,
/ Aft from the thrust block to…
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