on moving

in forgotten, half-read books
I find a Paris Metro ticket
Hunter S. Thompson’s obituary
With Gerald Scarf’s cartoon
A Pompey match report
A blank piece of paper in the chapter devoted to George Herbert’s theological poetry
and so many words, paragraphs, chapters
forgotten, over-written, wrongly remembered
stories now irrelevant
re-worked by life itself
truth and truisms
erotica unable to match the real joy
of making love with you

~

CLP 20/10/2024