#1181 - do you think that we are the only ghosts here?

 

1181

27.iii.23

4.86

do you think that we are the only ghosts here?

(cross-written)

a quodlibet

for ghostwriting

 

there is that rat I despatched with the shovel

thinking more humane

 

‘entrapment’, they will say

‘that cheese trap’

 

phantom KC strut

 

there are the old old ghosts

of where we are

each day paler

almost air

 

not just the gums

but all that grew

 

appliance died

a cupboard creaks

 

a crowd of mosquitoes

some in my blood

 

voices less and less

 

and our diseases

somehow survive

 

foxes wolves chicken ghosts

 

there’s a world before this was

 

whatever you say

it will have been

 

canons hymns choruses

 

the flies

and spiders of the wrong shade

went under the boot

poison gas victims

fist come down

 

those whom I never knew

but have eaten

whom others have eaten too

 

what of their souls (?), Augustine asked

and where can they be now?

 

some will say they haven’t

and it cannot be so

 

but there’s always the ghost of a chance

 

dead

but so many of the gone are lost

 

out like a tide all are