1000 Views of “Girl Singing”

You worry that you are worried. Is the lecture going to be ok?
Have you prepared enough? Where can you smoke a cigarette?

The elephants were on television, all lit up and ghostly.
If you don’t know the reference it makes no sense at all.

Angel singing, girl crying. A sense of narrative pulled
out of nowhere, my third trip to town today.

Bob said the paintings looked like rows of teeth.
I cannot see them now without remembering this.

We know how the future sounds but still cannot
reach a definite confusion. Elephants fly overhead.

(By and © Rupert M Loydell)