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Being a Poet
after Warhol exhibition, Tate Modern, 2002

Maybe you think it’s going to happen
scene by scene like a comic strip

1 static image
repeated

or seen through flickering snowflakes
or coloured gels.

God imagines being in a room full of neon cow heads
even my father who slaughtered them

every day for 35 years
would have felt ill.

Everyone needs somewhere to rest
look out for seats under signs

saying things like
Silence

or When the red light is on
watch yourself carefully then.

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Who tied the knot in the tablecloth
on the trestle table
where Jesus and the 12
ate supper?

What was it to remind them of?

 

 

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