Got a little blue
when the band
started playing
easy tunes
remember Ciarán
when we were
young, wasting
away energies
happy days
come, gone
tonight
there’s a meeting in the conference room
and the ferry trawls on
old shore to old shore
cautious new hopes
(sign me up)
on the seventh deck
some musician plays a later
neil effing young tune
guest service centres duty free shops
nothing like a little literature
out in an open sea
wash’d’up on top, virgin ‘neath th’surface
charlie don’t surf
and charlie don’t dive all that much
the hull lurches
up down and diagonal
we’ll be skipping dinner
teenage girls crowd the star bucks
one solitary soul does her homework
some schoolbags live by the door
with shoes
then sketches of others fill notebooks
nice and tight on the form (jus’ the form)
thas right
just like that
let us mowsie on back to where –
enough of the family excursion
we got better things to do
like sit in a corner
on deck ten.
