Paul Wilson

‘I felt so washed-out - like an indecipherable rune! '
Now shall I numb you with my needle
Or mumble something simple
And tickle with my tune?
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In the shadow
Between dark and light;
In the suffocating
Arclit compound;
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How do I know what I am, what I am?
How do I know when I say what I am?

How do I know when I say, when I say?
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‘Goodnight', they said, and left
and I was left alone,
I felt,
Me, in the mothstarred rushing heavens,
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Who would lay the lion down,
And find in those jaws a resting-place?
Who would he who walks in white
Past the tree and past the town,
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Was life just a metaphor,
Or, will a flaming meteor
Fall to earth tomorrow
Carrying foreign spore?
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Sure we are like the dreamers in the cave.
Not recalling our total stature,
Our dreams recall our odd dreams of perfection!
We toss, we turn, restlessly we burn
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Who are you and
Who are you and
Who are you and
Where are you going?
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I can see you
Eye can see you
Here I am
Watching,
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I'll thank you to notice me
As ye walk by; here I stand,
A post-mortem,
And a signed,
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New world of squeak, I hear you speak
But where are all your people?
They are cultivating their
Allotments in The Times
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A great new spirit began to climb
Among the spa-attenders; for
The deafmute began to mime, like a flute
For the time
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I do not wear that unfashionable flower
Whoever bore me left it, singing the hour
Only I tore the hills apart
With my fashionable dart.
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Through the reflection stirred the pond
- I waved in vain my magic wand.
While clouddrops gathered into rain
- the wand I had I waved in vain.
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If there is a knot,
It will slip,
And one will smile
To forget;
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We printed IT everywhere,
Hoping to eventually believe;
We said IT everytime,
Seeming to believe;
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Oh book! you made me look (and relish)
- hellish fantasy and fugue!
They always said that you were rude
But Mozart always made me sicker
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Keen notes fill
The gaps in reality
Who are these here?
Small music of air!
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Li-Hwan was with me
When I left here;
We went with the wind
For the horizon
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