• on freedom

    our choices lie before usour fate determined by those availablea woman scrabbles in the streetpanicking to retrieve cardsthey are blown along the paving in the rainsome spin into a gutterno one helps herwhy would you pick up a wind thrown tarot card lying at your feet?what might it portend?passers-by choose to step carefullynot one wants

  • Why am I not?

    Why am I not, what?How long have you got? Within our allotted span we have choices fewWhere we were born comes into it, true Who are our parents, where did we liveWhat was the school, all this we must sieve Then there is sex and sexualityDon’t try to deny that harsh reality Then there is

  • It’s a goal!

    Holes in my socksEnd of season sale shortsA third choice shirtOf several years pastIt’s a bit of a mish-mashBut it’s only for funI’m still playing footballWhile I can still runThere’s no better gameI still pretend to be Andy ColeWhen I make some spaceAnd score one more goalIt might be my last everWho knows what fate

  • On Playing xxi

    Is that how it was? Truly unbelievable. Oh! How we laughed ~ n.b. Sometimes you just cannot make it up. The happiest coincidences, the spontaneous choices, the good fortune, the generosity of the people you bump into on the way, the adventures. Some call it fate, but that’s life! CLP 30/01/2021

  • On Ending

    Suddenly, mid-word the ink ran out and just left a faint impression ~ n.b. My pen, a gift from a friend who acquires them from the Lausanne Palace, dried up. Just when I was thinking of something else. ~ CLP 06/10/2020