Sunday 21 February 2016

Is that like the television? ...



I showed my dad a photograph of The Duke of York

The long hours were filling the lounge of memory -

My dad held the I Phone as though it were a mysterious artefact - 

There he said, pointing to a point just before the bows - that's where the cable holds are - I've stood there - 

I gazed at the vast implacable shape of the battleship - 

Smoke poured from the single funnel - 

Immense guns were like dreadful sleeping animals - 

There were over a thousand men on board my dad said - 

He put down the I Phone - 

He asked me where I got the picture - 

The Internet I said - 

Is that like the television?

In a way I said - 


16.15
Sunday 21 February 2016

Staunton Road
Havant 

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