Friday, 10 September 2021

the monuments

 the monuments


the monuments

who will clean them

when we are all gone

whose hands will brass

the shiny dog’s nose

the ear or the brow

the patina will grow

on

the monuments

who will remember

that the memories are gone

that there is no one to know

that there is no one no more 

un-patted the patina will grow

and will grow

on

the monuments

toppling one after one

as the subsidence of existence 

the sink hole we know

that there will be no one

to peer into the hole

for the whole of existence 

is gone and we don’t know that

on 

the monuments 

no bird shit is sitting now

on the angels the patina

of lichen does grow

but the songs of the birds 

was cooked up long ago

and no one 

no one does know

on

the monuments 

not one inscription is new

for the hand with the chisel

is no longer sinew

but bones that are pointing

and that is the point

that no one

no one

will ever know

now




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