One More Poem

just one poem before I pull the trigger
one more poem about the little white mug with a chinese bowl on it
which is a
bit cracked
and then I'll be off
and out of your psyche

just one more poem before I retire
and open up a newsagents in Tenerife
which also sells fancy lighters
and stamps
ee it is nice to get away from the damp

just let me breathe a poem before
i take the capsules
one romantic poem about how you looked when
you used to pull your sweater down in that annoying way
all the time and wore something
smelly on your hair
I hated that smell
and that hairstyle
though i can now see it had a certain kitsch value
when you used to keep playing with your hair and pulling that sweater
down

just another poem
before I crawl on all fours
down the road to ruin
showing off that I can put one of my big toes in my mouth
wearing a tunic from British Home Stores
and the poem will be about
nice stuff runny fried eggs and a couple of circus clowns
find unrequited love in a gondola
whilst their face runs down

just one more verse
before I give birth
to another of my money-spinning ideas which never take off
something something something
that's the door
and I have a bit of a cough